段落翻译：怎样信神－－《The road less traveled》

群里讨论什么是神？要不要信神？信哪个神？我说信什么不重要，信哪个也没关系，关键是怎么信，信了以后做什么。摘抄一段《The road less traveled》里面的文字，试着翻译一下：

 

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?

 

围绕上帝显然有很多肮脏的洗澡水： 圣战、宗教判裁、 动物牺牲、 人类牺牲、 迷信、愚弄、教条主义、无知、伪善、自以为是、死板、残酷、焚书、焚巫、 抑制、 恐惧、 一致性、 病态罪恶、疯狂......  名单几乎是无止境的。 但是这一切都是上帝对人类做的？还是人类对上帝做的？ 非常明显，对上帝的信仰往往导致破坏性的教条主义，那么，这是由于人类相信上帝的问题，还是因为人类倾向于教条化？ 坚定的无神论者的“不信”，与信徒的“信”，其实是同样的教条。 我们需要摆脱的是对神的信仰？还是教条主义？

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回复 '为写而写' 的评论 :
妹妹说的极是，质疑思考和忠诚信仰，缺一不可，需要的是知道什么该质疑，什么该坚信。

[为写而写]

多谢摘录并翻译这一段，很重要的角度。信仰和教条主义还是有些关联的。因为信仰使很多懒于思考的人失去了独立判断的愿望和能力。但另一个极端是，勤于思考的人在信仰缺失的情况下只能在自己的思想里兜圈子，终是无处可归。