Name: 5 種瘋狂的宗教傷害，只需 15 分鐘！ (5 Insane Religious Harms in Just 15 Minutes!)
Uploaded: 2025-08-31T23:30:00.000Z
Duration: 15 min

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I often talk about how religion is harmful, and I want to do more than just make that assertion.

我經常談論宗教是如何有害的，而我想做的不僅僅是做出這樣的斷言。

I want to continue to bring the evidence, I want to continue to talk about the proof of this.

我想繼續拿出證據，我想繼續談論這方面的證明。

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And so today, we're going to be focusing on a handful of ideas that are especially harmful from religion in general, but also within Christianity.

是以，今天我們將重點討論宗教中特別有害的一些觀點，但也包括基督教內部的觀點。

Ideas that were once just in scripture or theology, but spiraled into social system that harmed millions and still continue to echo today.

這些思想曾經只存在於經文或神學中，但卻演變成社會制度，傷害了數百萬人，至今仍在迴響。

Ideas that have justified oppression, conquest, and cruelty in the name of divine truth.

這些思想以神聖真理的名義為壓迫、征服和殘忍行為辯護。

So we're going to dive right in, but I have two things I want to say first.

是以，我們將直接進入主題，但我有兩件事想先說一下。

Welcome, this is a Thinking Thursday episode.

歡迎收聽本期 "思考星期四 "節目。

It is my favorite episode of the week to make, but it also happens to be the least viewed.

這是我本週最喜歡製作的一集，但同時也是收視率最低的一集。

Now there's many of you that love it, and I hear about that, and I thank you for that.

現在有很多人喜歡它，我也聽說了，為此我向你們表示感謝。

But please continue to show your love by watching it all the way through if you can, sharing it, liking it, leaving a comment, all the things that help the channel.

不過，請大家繼續支持我們，儘可能全程觀看、分享、點贊、留言，所有這些都有助於頻道的發展。

I'd love to get this side of the channel up a bit.

我很想把海峽這邊的水位提高一點。

And then secondly, I'd like some feedback from you guys.

其次，我想聽聽你們的反饋意見。

Lately as I've been doing this, at least the ones that don't focus on an individual, typically focus on some kind of a list, like these episodes.

最近我一直在做這件事，至少那些不以個人為中心的節目，通常都是以某種清單為中心，比如這幾集。

I think today we're just going to do five of these harmful ideas from religion.

我想，今天我們只討論宗教中的五種有害思想。

Do you like when I go up to 20, 30, or 40?

你喜歡我升到 20、30 還是 40 嗎？

So let me know that, and then you can leave another comment after you see the video, and that will help today's engagement.

所以請告訴我，看完視頻後可以再留言，這將有助於今天的參與。

Sorry, I don't typically ask for this, but again, I love these episodes and I want them to have a better reach.

對不起，我通常不會提出這樣的要求，但我還是那句話，我喜歡這些劇集，我希望它們能有更好的收視率。

So number one today is the divine right of kings.

是以，今天的第一要務就是君權神授。

Now this is more of an old idea, not something that all of us living today are very familiar with or have to contend with yet.

現在看來，這更像是一種古老的觀念，並不是我們今天生活的所有人都非常熟悉或必須面對的。

But this is the idea that whoever is in leadership was put there, appointed there, blessed there by God, and thus cannot be questioned.

但這種觀點認為，無論誰擔任領導職務，都是上帝安排的、任命的、賜福的，是以不容質疑。

Because to question that king or that leader would be to question God himself.

因為質疑國王或領袖就等於質疑上帝本身。

This concept made the monarchs, the rulers, only accountable to God, not the people, not any kind of constituents.

這種觀念使得君主、統治者只對上帝負責，而不對人民負責，也不對任何選民負責。

It created a moral buffer around what inevitably became tyrants, where they didn't have to worry about criticism or opposition or accountability, heaven forbid, quite literally.

它為那些不可避免地成為暴君的人提供了道德緩衝區，在這裡，他們不必擔心責備、反對或問責，天理不容，簡直就是如此。

That was, you know, back in the day, they didn't know what they were doing.

那是，你知道，在過去，他們不知道自己在做什麼。

Clearly that's not what God intended, but they didn't pull it out of thin air.

這顯然不是上帝的本意，但他們並沒有憑空捏造。

They got it from verses like these, Romans 13 one, let every person be subject to the governing authorities for there is no authority except from God.

他們是從《羅馬書》第 13 章第 1 節這樣的經文中得來的，"人人都當順服掌權的，因為除了神以外，沒有別的權柄。

And those authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

而這些存在的權力機構都是由上帝設立的。

It's not some Old Testament Levitical claim.

這不是什麼《舊約》中利未人的說法。

Not that we couldn't look at the Old Testament.

並不是說我們不能看《舊約全書》。

你可以看看《撒母耳記上》第 10 章。

This is where Samuel anoints Saul as king.

這是撒母耳膏立掃羅為王的地方。

We're moving into a monarchy from the time of judges because kings are needed.

我們正從法官時代進入君主制，因為需要國王。

At least that's how the book of Judges ends.

至少《士師記》是這樣結尾的。

If we continue on in that story, when Saul doesn't genocide to the full effect that God desires, he loses his anointment and it goes to David.

如果我們繼續講這個故事，當掃羅沒有按照上帝的旨意進行種族滅絕時，他就失去了他的膏藥，膏藥落到了大衛的頭上。

So you, the people, just sit back and do whatever the king says.

所以，你們，人民，只需坐好，聽從國王的吩咐。

Because if he gets it wrong, God will deal with it.

因為如果他弄錯了，上帝會處理的。

Talk about a system inbuilt for oppression and harm.

這就是一個為壓迫和傷害而生的系統。

I think both Old and New Testament, you can get some pretty good ideas.

我認為，無論是《舊約全書》還是《新約全書》，你都可以從中得到一些很好的啟發。

And by the way, there's a lot more verses.

There's some that can even be taken out of context.

Ecclesiastes 8.4 says, since a king's word is supreme, who can say to him, what are you doing?

傳道書》8.4 說，既然國王的話至高無上，誰能對他說，你在做什麼？

This is more a statement of how things are than an endorsement that God wants them this way.

這與其說是對上帝希望事情如此發展的認可，不如說是對事情現狀的陳述。

But we have those endorsements elsewhere.

但我們在其他地方也有這些支持。

And also, if we believe the religious tradition of who wrote Ecclesiastes, it is King Solomon.

此外，如果我們相信關於傳道書作者的宗教傳統，那麼作者就是所羅門王。

Not only a king, but a king who got his wisdom straight from God making this announcement.

不僅是一位國王，而且是一位直接從上帝那裡獲得智慧的國王，他宣佈了這一消息。

These ideas, these doctrines sustained centuries of this monarchy and feudal hierarchy across Europe.

這些思想和學說支撐了整個歐洲幾個世紀的君主制和封建等級制度。

And even today, though Europe has changed massively, we still see echoes of that.

時至今日，雖然歐洲已經發生了巨大的變化，但我們仍能看到當年的影子。

And in other countries where it's more authoritarian, we still see leaders who claim divine appointment, spiritual sanction.

而在其他更加專制的國家，我們仍然可以看到一些領導人聲稱是神的任命、精神的認可。

And if Christian nationalists get their way, they want to bring that here.

如果基督教民族主義者得逞，他們就會把這種情況帶到這裡來。

I don't want to spend too much time on any one of these.

我不想在任何一個問題上花費太多時間。

Let's move on to our second one, manifest destiny.

讓我們繼續討論第二個問題，"顯而易見的命運"。

The idea here is that one group of people thinks that God or claims that God wants them to have a land that belongs to another group of people for all kinds of excuses, advancing the name of God, saving the heathen soul, and on and on and on.

這裡的意思是說，一群人認為上帝或聲稱上帝希望他們擁有屬於另一群人的土地，理由有各種各樣，比如弘揚上帝之名、拯救異教徒的靈魂等等，不一而足。

或者很多時候，不是這些事情。

Just straight up, God told us we can have this land, and if you get in our way, we'll kill you.

上帝直截了當地告訴我們，我們可以擁有這片土地，如果你擋了我們的路，我們就殺了你。

Now, we typically associate this term with the 19th century American belief that God sanctioned the expansion to the West.

現在，我們通常把這個詞與 19 世紀美國人的信仰聯繫在一起，即上帝準許了向西方的擴張。

And it justified all kinds of atrocities from war to the genocide of the indigenous people, the annexation of territories, and the forced assimilation of non-European cultures.

它為各種暴行辯護，從戰爭到對土著人的種族滅絕、吞併領土以及強行同化非歐洲文化。

It merged nationalism with theology in a very harmful way.

它以一種非常有害的方式將民族主義與神學融為一體。

And just like the divine right of kings, they were getting it from their scriptures.

就像君權神授一樣，他們也是從他們的經書中獲得的。

Genesis 128, right at the beginning, be fruitful and multiply, do what to the earth, subdue it, and have dominion over every living thing.

創世記》第 128 章一開始就說：要生養眾多，遍滿地面，征服大地，管理萬物。

Now, clearly, contextually, a Christian today might be able to say, well, that was a specific command from God to first man over the world that he had given them.

現在，很明顯，從上下文來看，今天的基督徒也許可以說，好吧，這是上帝給他們的一個具體命令，是上帝給他們的第一個人統治世界的命令。

自那以後，情況發生了很大變化。

But if you believe in an immutable God, you believe that he has someone or group of people that he is giving the right to subdue every other living thing.

但如果你相信一個永恆不變的上帝，你就會相信他賦予了某個人或某群人征服其他所有生物的權利。

And if you follow everything that comes after Genesis, you see that actually acted out.

如果你關注《創世紀》之後的所有內容，就會發現這一點確實得到了證實。

And so, of course, manifest destiny made sense.

是以，"顯而易見的命運 "當然是有道理的。

In fact, I've wanted to do an episode, and hopefully this will be the catalyst that gets me to finally do it, of comparing God's chosen people and their war path into the promised land with what happened in America via manifest destiny.

事實上，我一直想寫一集，希望這能成為我最終寫這一集的催化劑，將上帝的選民和他們進入應許之地的戰爭之路與美國通過 "命運顯明 "所發生的事情進行比較。

I think that the comparisons are astounding.

In Deuteronomy 11.24, we hear that every place where you set your foot will be yours.

在申命記 11.24 中，我們聽到你所踏足的每一個地方都將屬於你。

God, speaking to his chosen people, again, in Joshua 1.3, I will give you every place where your foot is set.

上帝在約書亞記 1.3 中再次對他的選民說："你們腳所踏之處，我都要賜給你們。

This is a constant concept from God to his people that borders and other ethnicities and nationalities and political systems, they don't matter to him.

這是上帝給他的子民的一個永恆概念，即國界、其他種族、民族和政治制度對他來說並不重要。

He's got one plan for one people, and under that plan, everything is excusable.

他為一個民族制定了一個計劃，在這個計劃下，一切都是情有可原的。

You don't need to excuse it, because it's justifiable.

你不需要為它開脫，因為它是合理的。

How many wars throughout all of history have happened under the same idea?

歷史上有多少戰爭是在同樣的理念下發生的？

And not even under just Yahweh, but this is a tool that religion can do, because when you make something so much bigger than yourself that cannot be questioned, and then you reverse it to bring it down to you as your power, it's just like the divine right of kings.

甚至不只是在耶和華之下，但這是宗教可以做到的一種工具，因為當你把一個比你自己大得多的東西弄得不容質疑，然後你又把它顛倒過來，讓它歸於你，成為你的權力，這就像君權神授一樣。

It positions itself in a way where it is the correct thing to do, and where anyone who would disagree is not just, again, disagreeing politically or ideologically, but against the creator of the universe.

它以一種正確的方式來定位自己，任何不同意它的人都不僅僅是政治上或意識形態上的不同意，而是反對宇宙的創造者。

我們看到這種情況正在加沙發生。

Literally some of these same verses being utilized.

從字面上看，其中一些經文被利用了。

So no, this isn't just something that happened a long time ago in the Middle East, or a couple centuries ago in America.

所以，這並不是很久以前在中東或幾個世紀前在美國發生的事情。

It's always been happening, and it's still happening.

這種情況一直在發生，而且仍在發生。

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