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The second reason I undertook this is because I'm concerned about the rise of fundamentalism, religious fundamentalism,
第二個原因我決定這樣做，是因為我對基督教基本教義的興起有興趣，
and people who say they take the Bible literally, which is, according to some polls, as high as 45 or 50 percent of America.
很多人聲稱他們完全依照圣經。根據調查有百分之45或50的美國人，按著圣經的教導過生活。
So I decided, what if you really did take the Bible literally?
所以我決定看看，真正依照圣經教導行事會怎樣?
I decided to take it to its logical conclusion and take everything in the Bible literally, without picking and choosing.
我決定接受它和它的邏輯上的推論，接受一切圣經上字面的說法，不去挑選。
The first thing I did was I got a stack of bibles. I had Christian bibles. I had Jewish bibles.
首先，我找到一堆圣經。我有基督教圣經。我有猶太教圣經。
A friend of mine sent me something called a hip-hop bible, where the twenty-third Psalm is rendered as,
我的一個朋友送我一本叫做“嘻哈圣經”，其中詩篇第23中所稱
"The Lord is all that," as opposed to what I knew it as, "The Lord is my shepherd."
“神是一切”，相對的，就我所知應該是“神是我的”。
Then I went down and I read several versions, and I wrote down every single law that I could find.
然后我閱讀了幾個版本，并且我寫下每一我能找到的律法。
And this was a very long list -- over 700 rules.
這是一個很長的清單--超過700條律法。
And they range from the famous ones that I had heard of -- The Ten Commandments, love your neighbor, be fruitful and multiply.
并且這些包含一些有名的律法，一些我曾經聽過的--“十戒”、“愛你的鄰人”、“多結果子和生養眾多”。
So I wanted to follow those. And actually, I take my projects very seriously,
所以我要遵循這些。我很認真執行這個計劃
because I had twins during my year, so I definitely take my projects seriously.
因為這年我生了雙胞胎，所以我確實認真的執行這計劃。
But I also wanted to follow the hundreds of arcane and obscure laws that are in the Bible.
但是我想按照這上百條在圣經中神秘且晦澀的律法。
There is the law in Leviticus, "You cannot shave the corners of your beard."
這些是在利未記中的律法--“胡須的周圍不可損壞。”
I didn't know where my corners were, so I decided to let the whole thing grow, and this is what I looked like by the end.
我不知道哪里是我的周圍，所以我決定留胡須，這是我最后看起來的樣子。
As you can imagine, I spent a lot of time at airport security.
你可想而知，我花了很長的時間在機場安檢部門。
My wife wouldn't kiss me for the last two months. So, certainly the challenge was there.
最后的兩個月，我太太不肯親我。所以，當然這是一項挑戰。
