Now, we also differ in the sense that you feel that religion has been a bane, B -A- N - E, to civilization, and I feel atheism has.
现在我们在观念上也出现差异了你们觉得宗教已成为一种剋星,B-A-N-E,对文化而言和我觉得无神论有此感觉。"The Contemplative Atheist is rare. . . And yet they seem to be more than they are" (Francis Bacon).
“喜欢深思的无神论者是很罕见的…他们看起来实际更喜欢思考”(弗朗西斯•培根)。This is not to say, however, that atheists have no responsibility whatsoever in the matter.
但这并不是说无神论者就在上帝的概念上没有责任去定义。Existentialism is nothing else but an attempt to draw the full conclusions from a consistently atheistic position.
存在主义只是经由一贯的无神论的立场上来寻求充分结论的一种企图而已。This is a very natural way for atheists to react to religious claims: to ask for evidence, and reject these claims in the absence of it.
这是无神论者在处理宗教观点时候很自然的一种反映:要求证据,并且拒绝那些没有证据支持的观点。VOICE: If atheism has produced such bad results, that would make it a bad idea.
如果无神论造成一个如此不好的下场,那麽这并不是一件好事。In his book, he depicts and outlines and asks the question, he was an attorney at the time he started his evaluations.
在书中,他总结证据,提出论证和问题。在开始研究时,他是个律师,也是个无神论者。So the assumption at that time of course, was that if you were an atheist there was nothing for you to make you moral.
当然了这在当时只是假设而已,如果你是一个无神论者,那么对你来说将没有任何道德上的教义。I'm about to say, "No thank you, I'm a militant atheist, " when he produces a piece of paper with a photograph on it.
我正要说“谢谢,我是一个激进的无神论者,”这时他拿出一份文件,上面有张照片。