Madhopuri, however, believes the new sacred text may not attract other Dalit communities because it only contains Ravidass verses.

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For one, Mr Gormez is the brains behind an ambitious project to reinterpret the Hadith, the most sacred text in Islam after the Koran.

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Smith mimicked the endless, generation-counting longueurs of the Old Testament so skillfully that he rendered the book dead as literature while giving it credibility as a sacred text: a book as boring as this could have been inspired only by the breath of God.

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As a consequence, there are those of faith who confuse mythos with logos - that is, they read a story or sacred text and interpret what is intended to be a symbolic aspect of spiritual life and treat it literally, as though the story happened historically or happened exactly as described.

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Whether we are home with kids, have become empty nesters or never took the relationship leap, making time for every element of life we hold dear often means working evenings and sacred weekends as we text, email, Skype and kiss foreheads goodnight.

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