SD冠军锦标赛｜美国藤校演讲与辩论赛中国选拔赛

Well a sermon wants to change your life and a lecture wants to give you a bit of information. 宗教里的传教想改变你的生活，而一个演讲只是给你一些信息资料 And I think we need to get back to that sermon tradition. 我觉得我们有必要找回传教的习俗 The tradition of sermonizing is hugely valuable, 这个习俗是非常有用的 because we are in need of guidance, morality and consolation R...

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I would say that there are many, many gaps in secular life and these can be plugged. 我觉得世俗的世界是有许多缺点的，但是那些缺点是可以被弥补的 It's not as though, as I try to suggest, 但这不是说 it's not as though either you have religion and then you have to accept all sorts of things 要么你相信宗教，然后你就要相信宗教所有的教条 or you don't have religion and t...

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My view is that museums should take a leaf out of the book of religions. 我觉得艺术馆应该向宗教学习 And they should make sure that when you walk into a museum — if I was a museum curator, 艺术馆应该确保，当游客走进馆内时候–如果我是馆长 I would make a room for love, a room for generosity. 我会专门为爱，为慷慨而准备特定的展览 All works of art are talking to us abou...

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We recognize them in relation to corporations. 我们还认同他们像个企业 And corporations are very like religions in many ways, except they're right down at the bottom of the pyramid of needs. 公司企业和宗教有些相似之处，不过企业只提供最基本的物质 They're selling us shoes and cars. 企业给我们鞋子和汽车 Whereas the people who are selling us the higher stuff — the t...

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The other thing that religions know is we're not just brains, we are also bodies. 宗教还知道我们人类不仅仅有智慧，我们还有躯体 And when they teach us a lesson, they do it via the body. 所以他们通过身体来教会我们道理 So for example, take the Jewish idea of forgiveness. 举个例子，像是犹太人懂得宽容 Jews are very interested in forgiveness and how we should start anew and st...

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I'm interested in the kind of constituency that thinks something along these lines: 我对有些情况非常感兴趣，有些人会说： that thinks, "I can't believe in any of this stuff. “我完全不相信这些宗教 I can't believe in the doctrines. 那些教义，那些学说 I don't think these doctrines are right. 我觉得它们全部都是假的 But," a very important but, "I lov...

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If you went to a top university — let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge — 如果你去顶尖学府，像是哈佛，牛津，或者剑桥 and you said, "I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; 然后你对他们说，"我想找到指引，慰藉，和道德" I want to know how to live," they would show you the way to the i...

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No, we need to be polite about differences. 不一定，我们只是需要礼貌地对待另一方 Politeness is a much-overlooked virtue. It's seen as hypocrisy. 有时候礼貌都被我们忽视了。有时候我们觉得那是虚伪 But we need to get to a stage when you're an atheist 如果你是个无神论者，而有个人对你说 and someone says, "Well you know, I did pray the other day," you politely ign...

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The two really bad ideas that are hovering in the modern world 在当代世界有两个特别糟糕的想法 that inhibit our capacity to draw strength from art: 他们抑制了我们在艺术里获得力量的本领 The first idea is that art should be for art's sake — a ridiculous idea — 第一，艺术就为了艺术而存在 –说起来很荒谬 — an idea that art should live in a hermetic bubbl...

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This is actually a courageous talk, 这真是一个无畏的演讲 because you're kind of setting up yourself in some ways to be ridiculed in some quarters. 在某些地方你似乎把自己当成了一个笑柄让大家嘲弄啊 You can get shot by both sides. 不管怎么说我都有可能被批评 You can get shot by the hard-headed atheists, and you can get shot by those who fully believe. 我可以被固执的无神论者...

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In the secular world we think, "If an idea is important, I'll bump into it. I'll just come across it." 在非宗教世界里，我们觉得 "我会毫无预兆就想到一个好主意，我是偶然想到的" Nonsense, says the religious world view. 宗教人士会说 "胡扯" Religious view says we need calendars, we need to structure time, we need to synchronize encounters. 宗...

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And I'd like to run through a few of these today. 现在我想具体地解释一下 I'd like to kick off by looking at education. 先从教育说起 Now education is a field the secular world really believes in. 非宗教的人们十分相信学习、教育的力量 When we think about how we're going to make the world a better place, 我们觉得教育使世界进步 we think education; that's where we ...

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