But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

  • -- Garrett Hardin 加勒特·哈丁

但是,用理性之钳把原教旨主义者的栗子从矛盾之火中拔出来是没有用的。他们真正的麻烦在别处。

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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

原教旨主义者对家庭的明显解体、确定性的消失和道德的堕落感到恐慌。恐惧使他们问,如果我们不能相信圣经,我们能相信什么?

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

人是一种需要秩序但又渴望改变的生物,这是构成他的从众性和定义他的越轨行为的法则的核心的创造性矛盾。

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

我是一个矛盾而混乱的人,但我认为我有权利像天气一样改变我的情绪。