A new survey indicates that 21 percent of Americans consider themselves holy.

The survey, conducted by the Barna Research Group, also found that 73 percent of Americans believe that a person can become holy, regardless of his past, while half of those surveyed said they knew someone whom they considered holy.

The study also asked Americans to define holy. The largest category of respondents (21 percent) admitted they didn’t know how to. The highest number that had an idea said “being Christ-like” (19 percent), while 18 percent said “making faith your top priority.”

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(The title of the post is the title of a song in an off-broadway play spoof called Nunsense)

Holy:

1. [n] a sacred place of pilgrimage
2. [adj]  belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power  

The Knowledge of the Holy - A.W. Tozer (p.111)
We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of.  God’s holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered.  We know nothing like the divine holiness.  It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable.  The natural man is blind to it.  He may fear God’s power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.”