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What is your favorite work of literature inspired by your scripture

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Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
whirlingmerc said:
For the Bible there are many

Milton got his inspiration for the morning song of Adam and Eve from Psalm 148
Praise finale psalms: part 3 - Ps 148

Perhaps Pilgrim's Progess for me
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I like this one

The Buddha teaches on old age, illness, and death | Wisdom Publications

“The beautiful chariots of kings wear out,
This body too undergoes decay.
But the Dhamma of the good does not decay:
So the good proclaim along with the good.”

(Samyutta Nikaya)

Teaches about life: birth, age, and death


“‘I am the owner of my actions (kamma), heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir’…. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/refuge.pdf

I cant complain about any Dharmic suttas. They are all good.
 
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GoodbyeDave

Well-Known Member
whirlingmerc said:
Perhaps Pilgrim's Progess for me
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I part company with that where Christian abandons his children to save himself.

Of course, I have no scriptures, but my religion has inspired magnificent literature. Not just in antiquity either: look at Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon and the praise of Artemis:
When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,
The mother of months in meadow or plain
Fills the shadows and windy places
With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain;
*****
Come with bows bent and with emptying of quivers,
Maiden most perfect, lady of light,
With a noise of winds and many rivers,
With a clamour of waters, and with might.
*****
Where shall we find her, how shall we sing to her,
Fold our hands round her knees, and cling?
O that man's heart were as fire and could spring to her,
Fire or the strength of the streams that spring!
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Audie

Audie

Veteran Member
DavidMcCann said:
I part company with that where Christian abandons his children to save himself.

Of course, I have no scriptures, but my religion has inspired magnificent literature. Not just in antiquity either: look at Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon and the praise of Artemis:
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Of course, with the bible as the only game in town,
this is surprising, a few people wrote well on godly
themes?

The intellectual and cultural developments were because of,
or despite the forced dominance of christianity?

Answer is obvious to all but those hopelessly indoctrinated.

The reign of terror that the church imposed for so much
of its history hardly sponsored free expression.

Not when a little slip could get your feet burned off.

Now people glory in how the church was so wonderful?
 
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whirlingmerc

Well-Known Member
Audie said:
Of course, with the bible as the only game in town,
this is surprising, a few people wrote well on godly
themes?

The intellectual and cultural developments were because of,
or despite the forced dominance of christianity?

Answer is obvious to all but those hopelessly indoctrinated.

The reign of terror that the church imposed for so much
of its history hardly sponsored free expression.

Not when a little slip could get your feet burned off.

Now people glory in how the church was so wonderful?
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The question is general to any scriptures
 
arthra

arthra

Baha'i
What is your favorite work of literature inspired by your scripture?

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Sally Arango Renata composed a poem

“The Prison”
(For Baha’i Sisters in Iran)

We have freedom here,
which seems capricious
as you sleep on cold
damp cement.

Perfumed sage wafts
through my unknowing rooms
as you endure foul
crusted toilets, failing bodies,
the scent of fear.

I foster angst,
tinker in empty places,
while you suppress
tears with smiles,
fear, with the chanting
of sweet verses
waiting for the call
of your name – or hers,
which brings even more pain.

What was I doing the day
the child Mona was hung,
the women, their fathers,
their mothers...

What was my day, months ago
when they stole more of my
sisters, still children,

for the sin of service,
for not hiding their faith
under a chador.

From the blur of worlds-
yours and mine, this
and the next, now and then,
comes the phoenix of love,
the joining of sisters.
I weep for wasted time.
 
IndigoChild5559

IndigoChild5559

Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
whirlingmerc said:
For the Bible there are many

Milton got his inspiration for the morning song of Adam and Eve from Psalm 148
Praise finale psalms: part 3 - Ps 148

Perhaps Pilgrim's Progess for me
Click to expand...
Definitely THE LORD OF THE RINGS, although it has a lot of th Christian Scriptures as well.

The Dunedain, or wandering Númenóreans who had survived from the previous age, were inspired by the Jews, according to Tolkien. Consider how applicable to the Jews is his poem about them:

All that is gold does not glitter
Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither
Deep roots are not touched by the frost
From the ashes a fire shall awaken
A light from the fire shall spring
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
And the crownless again shall be king.

Although the LOTR was published in 1954, it was conceived a long time before, well before the Independence war for the State of Israel. You might say he was a bit prophetic.
 
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