If you really believed the American flag to be sacred,

you would treat it with the same reverence which

orthodox Jews show toward the Tetragrammaton,

YHWH (which they refuse to pronounce, even when

it's translated into English as 'God'). You would

think the flag is so full of extraordinary power that

touching it would lead to your immediate destruction

and even gazing at it would render you totally blind.

[You say you can still see? O ye of little faith!]