8.6 自由派伪神学
8.6 Liberal Faux-theology
自由神论者的神学:除了不同文化为自己所创造的那些神之外,并没有任何神。于是,每个群体都试图把自己版本的神强加给所有人,因为人们自私、刻薄而充满仇恨。要是人们能认识到,神在任何客观(即有意义的)意义上并不存在,至多只是一个非人格化的神性存在,那么我们就能去关注一些更重要的事情,比如庆祝资产阶级男性相互鸡奸的“权利”。
The Liberal Theist’s Theology: There is no god except the god that different cultures created for themselves. Then each group attempts to impose their version of God on everyone else because people are selfish and mean and hateful. If only people realized that God doesn’t exist in any objective (i.e., meaningful) sense and is at most an impersonal deity, we could all worry about more important things like celebrating the “right” of bourgeoisie men to sodomize each other.
如果把自由主义世俗主义者的神学与无神论相比较,你会发现它们实际上是同一种哲学。上帝不过是人们为自己所想象出来的东西;宗教无非是人类的表达。并不存在独立的上帝,也没有客观的道德需要顾虑,只有自由主义的道德除外——而这种道德恰好与西北欧人和美国人的主流文化倾向相吻合。
If you were to compare the theology of liberal secularists to atheism, you would find them to be for all intents and purposes identical philosophies. God is just something people imagine for themselves. Religion is nothing more than human expression. There is no independent God or objective morality to worry about, other than liberal morality of course, which just happens to coincide with the prevailing cultural proclivities of Northwestern Europeans and Americans.