Criticizing a person’s ideas about God and the afterlife is thought to be impolitic in a way that criticizing his ideas about physics or history is not.

  • -- Sam Harris 山姆·哈里斯

批评一个人对上帝和来世的看法被认为是不明智的,而批评他对物理学或历史的看法则不是。

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The ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from collapsing.

人们一直怀疑科学发现或严格的圣经研究将破坏信仰,这是默认信仰受到知识的威胁,因为它最终是建立在薄弱或错误的假设之上的,就像众所周知的纸牌屋一样,需要“保护”自己不崩溃。

Because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

因为它似乎太简单,接受生活是一种信仰的行为。