Why was Thomas Jefferson inspired to rewrite this classic and — according to many of the world's people — sacred text?

为什么托马斯·杰斐逊想到重写经典—这篇世界上许多人认为是神圣的文字？

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For unitarian universalists and other liberal movements it is regarded as a sacred text but not as a divinely revealed work.

对于一神论的普救主义者，还有其他的自由运动，都把它看作是一个秘密文本，但并不是神启的作品。

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Like, he doesn't take the text as sacred, he elevates me, he questions me.

他不把那些曲谱当成神圣的东西，他使我升华，他向我提出疑问。

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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.

NEWYORKER: I, Nephi