聽神談【「生命的本質」與「社會演化的困境」】
人類所謂「真正一成不變、客觀標準的道德」並不存在。
任何進化中的社會也不可能如此,
因爲,進化的本質即是變化。
當然,這些正是許多以宗教爲基礎的政府所意圖阻止的。
他們企圖阻止變化,但變化是生命的本質,
他們雖然想要創造一個更好的生活與生命,
卻藉由否定生命的本質而爲之。
然而生命無法被否定,它的演變過程也不會趨向腐化。
因此當社會改變而道德標準卻一如往昔沒有改變時,
就形成了社會的重大困境。
摘自《與神對話之新啟示》第16章
Yet true morality as an unchanging, objective criteria does not exist.
It cannot in any evolving society, for the nature of evolution itself is change.
And, of course, this is exactly what most governments that have their foundation in religion seek to stop. They seek to stop change. Yet change is the nature of life. And so, they seek to create a better life by denying Life Itself.
But Life will not be denied, nor will its process be corrupted.
Great difficulty can thus arise when societies change and morals do not.