The dictionary defines sanctity as “The state of being sanctified; holiness, sacredness”. 

What is sacred to those of us whom the rest of the world calls “Americans”? 

Is human life sacred? 

How can we claim that we believe life is sacred to us when we sanction the killing of children by their mothers? What place should we hold more sacred than a mother’s womb? The womb is the seat of life itself, but we have made it a place of death for the most innocent among us and claimed it a victory for women. 

Do we consider race sacred? 

Though there is but one race, we allow colors to divide us into splintered groups, each sharing the same disdain for those who don’t share their same color. If we claim that all our skin colors are from God, but treat one another like the devil, doesn’t that make us liars? 

Is sex sacred to us? 

Can we treat anything as “casual” and at the same time claim to honor it as sacred? 

First there was “free love”, as if sex itself was love. It was glorified in our music, movies, literature and television shows. It seemed to permeate nearly every aspect of our culture. Casual sex morphed/escalated into "casual" adultery and what we used to call “holy matrimony” was dragged into the gutter as well. 

As if unsatisfied with the mess made of marriage, we then abandoned the sacred gifts of our distinctive male and female sexuality for relationships of the same sex. We have sold our soul to our own flesh refusing self-control, and argued against reason in favor of our right to do so. Is our view of love so shallow that we expect the freedom to engage in sex with everyone we claim to love? Are our bodies really designed for the acts being done with them today? 

God, being God, is obligated by his nature and identity to respond to our behavior and exact justice. 

He has set aside a day in which he will judge the world through Jesus. No one warned more often or more fervently of hell and its torment than did Jesus. 

At great personal cost to himself, however, God has provided his own son to suffer and die in our stead that we might be set free from his divine anger. 

Jesus taught us the sanctity of life, the holiness of every color of humanity and the sacred place our sexuality is to play in our lives. We cannot ignore his teachings, and his sacrifice and expect to escape his father's judgment.