有几个令人深思的问题:
上帝为什么用语言创造世界?跟女娲补天的世俗神话有何不同意义?
大洪水之际,万物均躲到挪亚方舟时,where is the fish?
七宗罪中,哪宗罪是最不可宽恕的?
Sin of Flesh and Sin of Intellect, 孰轻孰重?
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平安夜,还是在图书馆给自己布置了一项任务,看完Bernard Shaw的《圣女贞德》,有许多精辟的对白,其中印象最深的是---
JOAN: "You think that life is nothing but not being dead? It is not the bread and water I fear. I can live on bread. It is no hardship to drink water if the water be clean. But to shut me from the light of the sky and the sight of the fields and flowers; to chain my feet so that I can never again climb the hills. To make me breathe foul damp darkness, without these things I cannot live. And by your wanting to take them away from me, or from any human creature, I know that your council is of the devil."'
里面的Archibishop 说:A miracle is an event whicth creates faith. 贞德在那个动荡的年代,她聆听到到上帝的声音,看到常人所无视的幻象,义无反顾地奔赴战争前线,唤醒人们麻木的意志,抵御外敌。可是,最后却因威胁到教会的权威而被教会sentenced to death by fire as a heretic.
回宿舍的路上我突发奇想,自己要是也能聆听到异样的声音并看到异样的幻象,那是福是祸?
当然,没有信仰的我是无论如何也体会不到贞德看到信仰遭到质疑和鞭笞的绝望,也感受不到西方国家在平安夜听着:Silent Night--/Holy Night/-all is calm/ all is bright /Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child./Holy infant so tender and mild,/Sleep in heavenly peace……庆祝耶稣降临世间的神圣夜晚,渴望救赎,渴望受到神佑的那种朴素愿望。有罪无罪的人都祈祷吧!