智慧人生篇章 第27期:宗教在當(dāng)今社會(huì)的尷尬地位

"I'm spiritual but I'm not religious" is now acommonplace among people in Britain, themajority of whose population live their liveswithout reference to organised religion. In my roleas an Anglican priest, I meet significant numbers ofpeople who are on the cusp of leaving the church oron the cusp of wondering whether there's anything init - people who are very unsure about the role faithor religious practice should or does have incontemporary society. I met a woman recently whoworks in the NHS who said that she found it a loteasier to say to work colleagues that she was gay than a Christian, as it was hard to beassociated with the church in this generation.

“我有精神信仰，但我不信宗教”，這是英國(guó)民眾當(dāng)下的口頭禪，大部分英國(guó)民眾都不參加有組織的宗教活動(dòng)。作為英國(guó)國(guó)教牧師，我遇到過相當(dāng)一部分英國(guó)民眾正游離于遠(yuǎn)離教會(huì)的邊緣或正在思考宗教到底有些什么內(nèi)容 -- 他們懷疑宗教活動(dòng)或者宗教信仰在當(dāng)代社會(huì)到底有什么作用，或者應(yīng)該起一個(gè)什么樣的作用。我最近碰到個(gè)在NHS工作的女性，她說與其跟同事說自己信教，還不如說自己是個(gè)同性戀來的好理解，因?yàn)檫@一代人很難跟教會(huì)產(chǎn)生共鳴。