Holy Land & UnHoly Land - Why is a Mountain UnHoly Land???

Question

Most of us are aware of the concept of Consecrated or Holy Land, however the amount of land that has been made Holy (on Earth) is pretty much limited to the land around churches and grave yards. Question: If God made EVERYTHING that we know and see, why are mountains, beaches, hills and valleys all not Holy, should not every piece of land on this planet be equal. (Note: I understand that the Indians have a similar belief about the River Ganges being Holy, and that very recently they started to acknowledge that water from the Ganges could end up pretty much anywhere on this planet, and therefore they should consider all water equally holy)

Answer 1

How about if to remain pure you had to make a sacrifice on a holy shrine in your holy temple - and then you couldn't because your people were enslaved and relocated to another land? Would you then be impure because you couldn't perform your rites? [It happened when the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem, you can look it up;-]

It might start your people believing that it isn't the sacrifice or the holy location that is important, but the faith that you have...

Talk of holy locations is dogma, it is hard to believe that the God that is everywhere and nowhere likes some spots better than others...

So don't leave your faith in the hands of someone else - treat the whole world as blessed. (Actually, you ought to expand that view to the whole of creation;-)

Answer 2

All religions are superstitions. There are no gods, so nothing is really holy or unholy. Whether some land is considered holy or unholy depends on the superstition.

Answer 3

consecrated land is done so by man, without the authority of god.