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We have to recognize that real faith has no easy answers.
我們須認識到真正的信仰，從來沒有簡單答案
It's difficult and stubborn.
它是困難的、固執(zhí)而不順從的
It involves an ongoing struggle,
牽涉不間斷的掙扎
a continual questioning of what we think we know, a wrestling with issues and ideas.
要不斷懷疑自以為知道的，它是一場爭議和想法之爭
It goes hand in hand with doubt, in a never-ending conversation with it,
在不停的對話中，它和懷疑如影隨形
and sometimes in conscious defiance of it.
某時有意地蔑視懷疑
And this conscious defiance is why I, as an agnostic, can still have faith.
作為一名不可知論者，這種有意識地蔑視懷疑就是為什么我仍然要有信仰
I have faith, for instance, that peace in the Middle East
例如，我相信中東地區(qū)和平是可行的
is possible despite the ever-accumulating mass of evidence to the contrary.
盡管越來越多證據(jù)證明事實恰恰相反
I'm not convinced of this. I can hardly say I believe it.
我不相信這點，也很難說我相信
I can only have faith in it, commit myself, that is, to the idea of it,
我只能護衛(wèi)著信仰，致力于它的理念
and I do this precisely because of the temptation
我這樣做正因為誘惑
to throw up my hands in resignation and retreat into silence.
讓我舉起雙手投降，并退回到沉默中
Because despair is self-fulfilling.
因為絕望是一種自我實現(xiàn)
If we call something impossible, we act in such a way that we make it so.
如果我們認為某些事不可能，我們就以這樣的方式行動使它真的不可能實現(xiàn)
And I, for one, refuse to live that way.
對我來說，我拒絕這樣生活
