Imagine a shelf where a group of people keep the things nobody is allowed to touch. Sacrilege is reaching up, taking one down, and using it as if it were any ordinary object. What decides the weight of the act is not the object itself but how high the shelf stands for the people who put it there.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary dates it to around 1300 with the original sense of stealing something sacred, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus; the profanation sense appears in the late 14th century.
來源資料說它大約在 1300 年進入英文，最早就是「偷走聖物」，來自拉丁文 sacrilegium（sacrilegus），十四世紀後期才出現「褻瀆」的意思。可以想成：一開始真的是把東西從架子上拿走，後來變成把它的神聖拿走。
Wiktionary entry for sacrilege, etymology_text in this packet: circa 1300, original sense stealing something sacred, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus; sense of profanation from late 14th century.
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