段落翻譯：怎樣信神－－《The road less traveled》

群裏討論什麽是神？要不要信神？信哪個神？我說信什麽不重要，信哪個也沒關係，關鍵是怎麽信，信了以後做什麽。摘抄一段《The road less traveled》裏麵的文字，試著翻譯一下：

 

There is clearly a lot of dirty bath water surrounding the reality of God. Holy wars. Inquisitions. Animal sacrifice. Human sacrifice. Superstition. Stultification. Dogmatism. Ignorance. Hypocrisy. Self-righteousness. Rigidity. Cruelty. Book-burning. Witch-burning. Inhibition. Fear. Conformity. Morbid guilt. Insanity. The list is almost endless. But is all this what God has done to humans or what humans have done to God? It is abundantly evident that belief in God is often destructively dogmatic. Is the problem, then, that humans tend to believe in God, or is the problem that humans tend to be dogmatic? Anyone who has known a dyed-in-the-wool atheist will know that such an individual can be as dogmatic about unbelief as any believer can be about belief. Is it belief in God we need to get rid of, or is it dogmatism?

 

圍繞上帝顯然有很多肮髒的洗澡水： 聖戰、宗教判裁、 動物犧牲、 人類犧牲、 迷信、愚弄、教條主義、無知、偽善、自以為是、死板、殘酷、焚書、焚巫、 抑製、 恐懼、 一致性、 病態罪惡、瘋狂......  名單幾乎是無止境的。 但是這一切都是上帝對人類做的？還是人類對上帝做的？ 非常明顯，對上帝的信仰往往導致破壞性的教條主義，那麽，這是由於人類相信上帝的問題，還是因為人類傾向於教條化？ 堅定的無神論者的“不信”，與信徒的“信”，其實是同樣的教條。 我們需要擺脫的是對神的信仰？還是教條主義？

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回複 '為寫而寫' 的評論 :
妹妹說的極是，質疑思考和忠誠信仰，缺一不可，需要的是知道什麽該質疑，什麽該堅信。

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多謝摘錄並翻譯這一段，很重要的角度。信仰和教條主義還是有些關聯的。因為信仰使很多懶於思考的人失去了獨立判斷的願望和能力。但另一個極端是，勤於思考的人在信仰缺失的情況下隻能在自己的思想裏兜圈子，終是無處可歸。