What is sacred?

I raised this question today as an internal evaluation. Have we become, as an American culture, totally immune to the idea of sacredness? Because we can walk into any country and blow them up and take what is ours, have we completely lost this idea of identity in culture? Is there a piece of text that we hold dear to our own personal hearts that we feel is sacred? How would we feel if an Afghanistan theatre troupe began to put on their interpretations of our Christian Bible? How would you personally feel? I'm not saying this is wrong or that people are immune; I raise this question in self-diagnosis.Terrance McNally wrote Corpus Christi which is a modern re-telling of the story of Christ in modern day Texas where Jesus is gay. Americans immediately banned this and labeled it as blasphemous. That is a homosexual culture in America that was banned. How would people react to our enemies adapting our Christ-story? How do you feel about it?As theatre artists emerging, I feel we must ask ourselves what is our view on adaptations? How do we feel about work that we may create from scratch? LOL... to quote from Tuna Christmas... "I haven't had this much trouble since that all white production of Raisin in the Sun." Is there such a thing as sacred? What do you hold sacred? How would you feel if someone tried to not necessarily take ownership of it, but definately augment/change it?