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Treating the sacred like it's trash day, on purpose, in public.

means The act of deliberately violating or degrading something considered sacred or deeply respected.

from From Latin desecrare — de- ('undoing, reversal') plus sacrare ('to make sacred,' from sacer, 'sacred'). So where 'consecrate' makes a thing holy, 'desecrate' is its grim mirror: the unmaking of holiness, on purpose.

root meaning
literally unmaking something sacred, de plus sacred
legal angle
some countries still jail you for it
key insight
requires something held holy first
common targets
flags, graves, scripture, and corpses
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