Patrick,who is also an activemember of the community. "But at first when they saw us celebrating only Passover and they were saying, 'Oh,this is not a good type of religion for you to belong.' So when we got to know about Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur,Hanukkah, maybe lighting the candles and the Feast of Esther, which is Purim, and the fasting day, we were really happy,".

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In Stevens, modernity shows us that the truth of religion was always a fiction, a fundamentally poetic construction.

在史蒂文斯的诗里，现代性向我们展示了,宗教的真理不过是虚构之言，是最基本的诗意创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

If you didn't, perhaps you can raise your hand, and if the TFs have any left you'll want to take a look at these differences between patriarchal religion and Mosaic Yahwism, and this is going to help us.

如果还没有，你可以举手，看助教还有没有剩下的,你们要看看这些不同之处,先祖宗教和耶和华崇拜间的差别，这将对我们很有帮助。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Poetry, you remember--this is a scientist-- is no more true than religion, but it can perform the function of religion and is therefore capable of saving us.

科学家曾说过-,诗歌并不比宗教更真实，但是诗歌具有宗教的作用,并因此可以拯救人类。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Religion had to bring a softening effect upon against the violent and bestial character of the early Romans. But for us today, Machiavelli writes, religion has to serve the opposite purpose.

宗教必须带来一种缓和效应，用以针对,早期罗马人的野蛮残忍的性格,但是对于今天的我们来说，马基雅维利写道，宗教不得不为相反的目的服务。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选