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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
I'll check it out, but religion has always been a position of moral authority within society. Stating that the sanctity of church is based off of historical authority isn't wrong and to try and claim otherwise is disingenuous.
gpt
I think that's partially true for sure, but it's not so simplistic. I know atheists who have absolutely no respect for the institution of the church or it's authority, who would never do what op did. Not because of some deference to authority, but because they understand that to the layperson attending the church, their worship is *sacred.* It's a tough thing for non-believers to understand because the concept of sanctity is metaphysical in nature. 

The term also applies to why we don't disrespect the body of a dead person. Theoretically it's just meat like any other dead mammal, but we dress up and bury it, cremate it and put it in a decorative urn etc. We could turn it in to steaks, but we don't because there is something sacred about a body that a human soul once inhabited.