Concept in Definition ABC

The desecration is he disrespectful treatment or profane use of the sacredmeanwhile, by profane, he refers to that which is not sacred nor does it present any connection with the sacred.

Although, it is also common to use the word to refer to the dishonor or unworthy use of that which holds a respectable consideration. An example would be the irresponsible and totally disrespectful use of things, objects, buildings, institutions and even people, who are considered sacred and precious.

Most common manifestations

In the history of the humanity, desecration has been a practice, of course reprehensible, but that does not mean that hundreds of Sometimes, but quite the contrary, it has been common for certain groups or people to express their dissatisfaction or hatred for determined figures, cultures and religions through the desecration of those objects, buildings or people that best represent them.

In Ancient Rome a special practice was carried out when certain things were wanted to become sacred and enjoy the protection of the gods. This religious ceremony was called consecration and immediately after leaving it, things enjoyed special protection. For example, those who dared to attack, damage, or steal them, became criminals, sacrilegious.

Meanwhile, if these things were to regain their common character, they had to undergo another rite known as profanatio, in which that consecration was removed from them.

Attack on Jewish graves or the Eucharist in the Christian religion

The anti-Semitic hatred that many extremist groups express has been manifested on many occasions through the desecration of graves in Jewish cemeteries in various parts of the world.

Painted on the graves, with expressions certainly offensive towards that religion, is a practice that these groups tend to display when they want to express all their hatred towards Jewish culture.

Generally, it is neo-Nazi groups that usually perpetrate these despicable acts against the Jewish community, which as we know has been so affected and punished by the Nazism, with practices as inhuman and cruel as the extermination in a gas chamber and many other humiliations that they had to live in the nefarious fields of concentration at the behest of the so-called Jewish Holocaust during World War II.

For his part in the Catolic religion, for example, has been quite common desecration of the eucharist, of the body of God, by those groups or persons contrary to the guidelines proposed by the aforementioned religion, such is the case of sects or people who identify with Satanism or the cult of the Dark.

Traditionally, they have used the hosts to celebrate various pagan rites, witchcraft or black masses. Within the Catholic cult, whoever is found responsible or Author of a desecration will be punished with excommunication

Also, the desecration of buildings and institutions has been frequent, usually in situations of revolt or instability. politics, rebel groups have entered certain buildings and institutions to loot, burn, destroy them; Schools, convents, churches, congresses, monasteries, mosques and synagogues are the buildings that have traditionally been desecrated.

Behind this act, of course, there is a deep load of resentment and hatred that has been instilled in the groups that express themselves in this way.

For example, consider the extremist Islamic groups, who profess and practice the religion of Islam with an extreme sense of carrying and imposing their beliefs even if it is with the force. Thus, from a young age, they are taught and prepared to even give their own lives in the name of achieving the mission of spreading their faith and demonstrating their disagreement with Western practices.

The terrorist attacks that the Western world has been suffering since the most tremendous and shocking that occurred in the World Trade Center of the United States and that ended with two planes kidnapped by the terrorist organization Al Qaeda hitting the famous Twin Towers using kamikazes is one of the saddest and most extreme examples of this that we came commenting.