earth be filled with His

Lev4:20 brings up something interesting. Aaron and his sons are commanded to help the tribe of the families of the Kohathites (right, beats me who they are) with their work in the temple, with the strong caution that they are not to even glimpse the holy objects lest they die.

Here's the interesting thing: objects can be holy? "Holy" means something when it refers to God -- completely pure and good that the slightest sliver of sin is more noticeable a stain than you can imagine; holy to the realm of searing brightness obliterating all with the slightest trace of darkness. "Holy" when it refers to His followers makes sense. They are to cast away their lives of sin for something purer, the pursuit of brightness.

But how does this apply to objects? Catholic relics and the like mocked by Prots, what of them? Is holiness something transferable to something nonliving? Is sin a concept even grasped by a toaster? And free will to tables, what of that?

My mind hurts.