I mean it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.
We are always canting about people's "irreverence," always charging this offense upon somebody or other, and thereby intimating that we are better than that person and do not commit that offense ourselves.

Whenever we do this we are in a lying attitude, and our speech is cant; for none of us are reverent--in a meritorious way; deep down in our hearts we are all irreverent.

There is probably not a single exception to this rule in the earth.

There is probably not one person whose reverence rises higher than respect for his own sacred things; and therefore, it is not a thing to boast about and be proud of, since the most degraded savage has that -- and, like the best of us, has nothing higher.

To speak plainly, we despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things.