Top Ten Signs that You're a Christian
基督教徒的十个特征
1. You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of your god.
对于别的宗教声称它们的神存在时, 你激烈地否定. 但对于别人否定你的神时,你却感到非常愤怒.
2. You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from lesser life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
当科学家们宣称人是从较简单的物种演化出来时, 你觉得受到侮辱和失去人性. 但是, 对于圣经宣称你是从污泥中造出来时, 你却不认为有问题.
3. You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Trinity god.
你嘲笑多神论者,但你对于信奉三位一体的神却没有存疑.
(如果要较具代表性的话,你嘲笑别人念经是迷信,却认为自己对着空气说话是最理性的行为.)
4. Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" -- including women, children, and trees!
你听人说真神阿拉的残暴行径时气得脸色发紫, 但听见上帝/耶和华在「出埃及记」和「约书亚记」如何屠杀埃及的婴孩和命令以色列人进行种族清洗 - 包括妇孺和树木 - 时, 你却连眼都不眨一下。
5. You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
你嘲笑印度教将人奉为神明, 你又嘲笑希腊的神跟人类的女人同床, 但对于相信圣灵感动玛利亚令其珠胎暗结, 诞下一个道成肉身的上帝, 后来又给人干掉, 走一遭又升天了, 却不感到有任何问题.
6. You are willing to spend your life looking for little loop-holes in the scientifically established age of the Earth (4.55 billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by pre-historic tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that the Earth is a couple of generations old.
对于已获得科学界普遍认同的地球的年岁 (有45.5亿年历史), 你宁愿穷一生的精力去找寻其漏洞. 然而, 你对某部落成员坐在帐篷内估计地球只有几千年历史的这个构思, 却深信不疑。
7. You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects -- will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet you consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving".
你相信这个星球上的所有的人类除了那些和你有相同信仰的人之外 – 但却撇除那些有和你有竞争的教派 – 将于死后到地狱永远受折磨. 而你仍然认为你的宗教是最包容及最能够彰显出爱.
8. While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to prove Christianity.
当现代的科学、史学、地理、物理学皆不能满足你之时,可能一群在地上滚来滚去说「方言」的傻瓜们就是你所追求的答案。
(如果要较具代表性的话, 提议将中英文都改成 "当在实验室孜孜不倦地工作的科学家们不能给你满意的答案时, 坐在教堂内喃喃自语的傻瓜们却能取得你的信任".)
9. You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
当谈及对你祷告的回应时, 你把只有 0.01% 的回应率定义为 “高成功率”,更加认为是神聆听祷告的有力证据. 而你认为余下的 99.99% 的失败完全都是神的意愿。
10. You actually know a lot less than many Atheists and Agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history -- but still call yourself a Christian.
你比起很多的无神论者及不可知论者对圣经、基督教、教会历史的认识还要少, 但你仍然坚称, 自己是基督徒。
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