Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Lisa Caroline Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any other sites we could use which would be less biased in how they define what religions? We don't have to use their site at all if we don't like their attitude. AFAIK the Sword software is under a Free

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
I would vote for the The Nag Hammadi Library (early christian lost gospels) to be included as well in this all-encompassing religions/theologies activity: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html . Eduardoa 2008/10/18 Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Lisa

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Eduardo H. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would vote for the The Nag Hammadi Library (early christian lost gospels) to be included as well in this all-encompassing religions/theologies activity: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html . Are you putting your

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
You're right, I was actually just pointing to. Eduardo 2008/10/18 Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Eduardo H. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would vote for the The Nag Hammadi Library (early christian lost gospels) to be included as well in this

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Lisa Caroline Lewis
Are there any other sites we could use which would be less biased in how they define what religions? I imagine some might be seriously offended by considering Buddhism a cult, and in general OLPC shouldn't find itself in the position of endorsing one religion over another. Choosing the immediate

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-16 Thread Morgan Collett
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:15, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a Bible program in Sugar. Sword allows any number of texts, dictionaries, and commentaries in any combination of languages to be integrated together. I know where many other scriptures in many languages are

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-16 Thread Walter Bender
FYI, there is a Qur'an content bundle already available at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Quran -walter On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Morgan Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:15, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a Bible program in Sugar. Sword

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-16 Thread Sebastian Silva
Edward, It sounds to me like a wonderful project. I wondered myself why only the Bible was available. Morgan, them being christian does not necessarily imply they would not host other scriptures. The link http://www.crosswire.org/sword/publisher/index.jsp seems to suggest they would be open, for

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
2008/10/16 Sebastian Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]: E The link http://www.crosswire.org/sword/publisher/index.jsp seems to suggest they would be open, for at least putting it on the Cult / Unorthodox module add-on section. The irony being that this is a world-project and, buy the numbers, when