I did turn to
religious texts first, when I was trying to find words to use in the choral parts of the score.
The Bible can't be used to verify claims any more than the Quran or the Book of Mormon, as
all religious texts first require a basic belief on the part of the reader that they (the texts) are right in order to be viewed as such.
Not exact matches
The «Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions» now known simply as Nostra Aetate (or, «In our Time,» from the
first words of its Latin
text), denounced all forms of
religious hatred, and called for a new dialogue among the world's religions.
Finally, aware of the
religious dimensions of the
texts, they are able to appreciate how claims to ultimate significance are inevitably forged in terms that are anthropologically rooted, historically conditioned and literarily defined; on the other hand, for the
first time, many of them come to perceive Christianity as in fact making a number of extremely interesting
religious claims.
After Wieman's review of Process and Reality, his
first published
text relevant to our concerns was «God and Value,» a chapter in
Religious Realism, ed.
Gradually that tie has largely gone, but the christians in the USA at least want to impose their religion on the rest of us despite the
First Amendment: biblical
texts on public buildings, their god on the currency, their
religious beliefs to be law, christian prayer at public events, etc..
Following on from the legal ceremony, we staged our own take on a wedding ceremony, including «there in love in you» by Four Tet (an album Jon bought for Nat as a gift on their
first valentine's) whilst our friends and family contributed beautiful readings and poetry from Baha'i, Christian and non
religious texts.
For the
first two weeks of the program, the hotel is allowing guests to download any other
religious texts they like, up to $ 8 in value, for free.