重要的不是你选择什么，而是你拥有选择的事实。

What matters is not what you choose but the fact that you have a choice.

这就是自由世俗主义试图使神圣指引失效的方式。如果一切只在于选择，而你最终选择什么并不重要，那么你还需要什么指引呢？你还需要什么光明来为你指明方向、指向那些能带给你幸福与成功的抉择呢？

This is how liberal secularism attempts to nullify Divine guidance. If all that matters is choice and what you actually end up choosing is irrelevant, then what need do you have for guidance? What need do you have for light pointing you in the right direction, pointing you to the decisions that will bring you happiness and success?

有没有哪种哲学或伦理体系像自由世俗主义一样空洞？其他人为设计的体系至少还试图用实际的建议和原则来引导人类，这些原则理论上应当带来个人与集体的幸福。但自由世俗主义却不屑于此。按照它的说法，我们所需要的只是不受任何阻碍地做出选择。任何选择！即使你选择的是最具毁灭性、最卑劣、最荒谬的选择，只要你是“自由地”做出这一选择，它也比没有选择，或更糟——由神告诉你什么是正确的选择、并让你为做出错误的选择而感到愧疚——要好得无限多。

Is there any philosophical or ethical system as vacuous as liberal secularism? Other man-made systems at least make an attempt to guide humanity with practical advice and principles that, in theory, should lead to individual and collective felicity. But liberal secularism doesn’t bother with that. All we need, according to it, is just to make a choice without any hindrance in doing so. Any choice! Even if you choose the most destructive, vile, nonsensical choice, as long as you “freely” made that choice, it is infinitely better than not having a choice or, worse, having God tell you what is the right choice and making you feel bad for making the wrong choice.

从来没有比这更混乱的思维方式了。然而,正是这种思维支配着现代人的心灵。

There never was a more incoherent way of thinking. But it is this thinking that rules the hearts of modern men.