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And the more I thought about it, the more it made sense that he doubted,
我越想越覺得他的懷疑是源自于
because doubt is essential to faith.
懷疑是相信的必要部分
If this seems a startling idea at first,
如果最初聽起來讓人吃驚的話
consider that doubt, as Graham Greene once put it, is the heart of the matter.
就試想一下葛蘭姆·葛林說過的話，懷疑是事情的核心部分
Abolish all doubt, and what's left is not faith, but absolute, heartless conviction.
去除所有懷疑后，剩下的不會是信心，只有絕對的、沒有感情的確定
You're certain that you possess the Truth -- inevitably offered with an implied uppercase T --
你確信你擁有真理--必然地附有一個大寫的“T”--
and this certainty quickly devolves into dogmatism and righteousness,
同時這種確信很快轉移為教條主義和正義
by which I mean a demonstrative, overweening pride in being so very right,
就是一種由于無比的正確而帶有喜怒形于色的，過分自負的驕傲
in short, the arrogance of fundamentalism.
簡言之即是原教旨主義的傲慢
It has to be one of the multiple ironies of history
這必定是歷史上許多諷刺之一
that a favorite expletive of Muslim fundamentalists
伊斯蘭原教旨主義者喜愛的一句咒駡語
is the same one once used by the Christian fundamentalists known as Crusaders:
和基督教原教旨主義者曾使用的相同，以十字軍著名的
"infidel," from the Latin for "faithless."
“異教徒”源自于拉丁語中的“沒有信仰”
Doubly ironic, in this case, because their absolutism is in fact the opposite of faith.
更加諷刺的是，他們的絕對主義事實上正是信心的對立面
