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

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&#39s not as though, as I try to suggest,但这不是说it&#39s 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&#39t have re

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

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&#39re 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&#39re selling us shoes and cars.企业给我们鞋子和汽车Whereas the people who are selling us the highe

The other thing that religions know is we&#39re 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 shoul

I&#39m 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, &quotI can&#39t believe in any of this stuff.“我完全不相信这些宗教I can&#39t believe in the doctrines.那些教义，那些学说I don&#39t think these doctrines are right.我觉得它们全部都是假的But,&quot a very important b

If you went to a top university -- let&#39s 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, &quotI&#39ve come here because I&#39m in search of morality, guidance and consolation然后你对他们说，&quot我想找到指引，慰藉，和道德&quotI want to know how to live,&quot they would show you the

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&#39s 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&#39re an atheist如果你是个无神论者，而有个人对你说and someone says, &quotWell you know, I did pray the other day,&quot you poli

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&#39s 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 bubble

This is actually a courageous talk,这真是一个无畏的演讲because you&#39re 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

In the secular world we think, &quotIf an idea is important, I&#39ll bump into it. I&#39ll just come across it.&quot在非宗教世界里，我们觉得 &quot我会毫无预兆就想到一个好主意，我是偶然想到的&quotNonsense, says the religious world view.宗教人士会说 &quot胡扯&quotReligious view says we need calendars, we need to structure time, we need to syn

And I&#39d like to run through a few of these today.现在我想具体地解释一下I&#39d 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&#39re going to make the world a better place,我们觉得教育使世界进步we think education t

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