"I wish to express no contempt for individual devout and pious member of that Catholic church. They are welcome to their sacraments, they're welcome to their reliquaries and to their Blessed Virgin Mary, and they're welcome to their faith, to the importance they place in it, to the comfort and the joy that they receive from it. All of that is absolutely fine by me. It would be impertinent and wrong of me to express any antagonism towards any individual who wishes to find salvation in whatever form they wish to express it. That to me is sacrosanct as much as any article of faith is sacrosanct to anyone of any church or any faith in the world. It is very important."
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Stephen Fry, in The Catholic Church is a Force for Good in the World Debate in Central Hall, elance.com, 19 October 2009
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Sacrosanct
Sacrosanct means beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction, and inviolable. The term is derived from the phrase sacer esto ("let him be accursed") and reflects that violation of a tribune's sacrosanctity was not only a secular offense, but a religious offense as well.
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