3.2 世俗主义的空洞
3.2 The Void Of The Secular
世俗主义关注的全是手段,并且会积极地分散人们对目的的注意。因为目的属于宗教的范畴。
Secularism is all about the means and actively distracts people from the ends. Because the ends are the domain of religion.
世俗主义会告诉你行动的重要性,但对于结果,它只给出含糊的断言。因为结果属于宗教的范畴。
Secularism will tell you the importance of action but will only give you vague assertions about the results. Because results are the domain of religion.
世俗主义会告诉你必须投票,却不会给你一个实质性的伦理愿景,供你据以投票。因为实质性的伦理愿景属于宗教的领域。
Secularism will tell you that you have to vote but won’t give you a substantive ethical vision on the basis of which to vote. Because substantive ethical visions are the domain of religion.
世俗主义会告诉你要平等地尊重每一个人,却不会告诉你什么才算值得尊敬。因为尊重与可敬的核心,属于宗教的领域。
Secularism will tell you to respect everyone equally but won’t tell you what it means to be respectable. Because the core of respect and respectability is the domain of religion.
你或许会认为,这一切意味着,随着人们日益世俗化,他们也变得更加中立,更加脱离任何具有伦理实质的东西,更加与任何有意义的事物割裂开来。
You might think that all this implies that as people become more secular, they become more neutral, more detached from anything of ethical substance, more disconnected from anything of meaning.
但你会错了,因为心永远不会空虚。自由主义世俗的空洞所留下的空白,很快就被企业集团生产、由以利润为导向的大众媒体传播的低俗文化产物所填满,随时准备播放,使淫秽丑行(fahisha)和贬损变得寻常。这便成了大众的宗教,成了他们品格的内容。这就是世俗主义被刻意设计要造成的结局与目的:把你变成一个顺从的奴隶。
But you would be wrong because the heart can never be empty. The emptiness created by liberal secular vacuousness is quickly filled up with base cultural artifacts produced by corporate conglomerates and disseminated by a profit-driven mass media at the ready to broadcast and normalize fahisha (obscene iniquity) and denigration. This becomes the religion of the masses, the contents of their character. This is the end, the purpose that secularism is meant to produce by design: To make you an obedient slave.
“行为凭意图”是这种毒药的解药。时刻将你的行为与你的存在连接到它的根源,深入反思你的目的与终极归宿。这只有创造你的造物主才能赋予。因此,请洗清你心中因卑劣的自由主义、世俗主义和消费主义文化而积累的污垢,将自己与唯一真正有价值的事物相连。这就是所寻求的瓦西拉(连接或途径)。
“Actions are by intentions” is the antidote for this poison. Constantly connecting your acts and your existence to their Source. Deeply reflecting on your purpose and your ends. This is something that only your Creator, the One who made you, can provide. So cleanse your heart of the accretions of base liberal secular consumerist culture and connect yourself to the only thing of true worth. This is the wasila (connection or means) that is sought.
1. https://forward.com/food/416983/all-the-european-countries-where-kosher-and-halal-meat-production-are-now/
1. https://forward.com/food/416983/all-the-european-countries-where-kosher-and-halal-meat-production-are-now/