Whether as a sacred shrine, mountain or city, the association between God and place stirs the deepest passions. It is therefore only human that Holy Place tends to find political representation as territory . But too often this degrades worship into discrimination, terror and killing. The problem becomes acute when more than one tradition claim the same sacred place. In the name of God, love is driven out.
Sanctity is profaned.
Nine O clock News on the last day of February 1991. I have a message for the people back home. Ring your church bells. But the same news bulletin announced that one hundred thousand Iraqi conscripts were dead. The mainstream church leaders of Scotland kept their bells silent.