Robert Lannes: Landscapes of the Sacred Post #3

     As I have been reading in Belden C. Lanes, Landscapes of the Sacred, I began reading about the four axioms, which are, "basic, self-evident principles that underlie the way by which landscape is molded into the religious imagination." The third axiom really caught my attention because I agree very much with what it tells us.  The third axiom asserts that "sacred place can be tred upon without being entered."  I agree with this, because I know that not everybody will take away the same meaning from a place as another would.  There are many sacred locations that some would consider very sacred, while others would consider a waste of space or time.  Sacred places are only sacred to a certain group of people.  I go to McLean bible church, which is a huge 90 million dollar building that used to be the national wildlife federation building.  This place has a lot of meaning to me as a sacred location, yet some other people view it as just some huge building that causes a lot of traffic on sundays.  They tred upon it, but do not truly enter the spiritual aspect of it.