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someone in the audience asked him did he believe in the ten commandments. he said, yes, i do believe in the commandments- six commandments and four suggestions. that s a good one with doctrine, because when we re talking about doctrine, as you know, and ethics, we re at the very heart of the course, which is belief and behavior. and we ve mentioned several functions of doctrine, and today i want to take another spin on that and look at the tension in the doctrinal dimension between the sacred and the secular. so often the deeply religious have a problem with the secular world, and for others, like us, it s difficult to see where that demarcation is, that line between what is the mundane, what s the ordinary, and what is special and what is sacred. and we ve talked about iliade and looking at symbols and we ve looked where people have gotten holy symbols. but for some groups, building a doctrinal- i don t know if wall is the right word, but the brain isn t quite work ....