講基督教 一

Dear Vladimir, 今天你讓我講基督教.這是一個比上次更大的題目，我已經開始皺眉撓頭皮了。 以前沒有跟著爸爸學國際政治專業，因為看見一大堆年代要背，就開始頭疼. 前一次是講伊斯蘭教，已經感到信息過於豐富了。今天的基督教的內容，簡直就是排山倒海呀。基督教比伊斯蘭教更宏偉龐大，整個西方的歷史、文化就是基督教宗教史和西方文化. 聽說以前美國這邊的大學考試，有三分之一是有關基督教宗教內容的，他們用這個辦法來排除猶太教的優秀猶太學子。 後來猶太孩子,努力打破了這個界限。美國這邊有很多的教會，每個街上幾乎都有教堂。可能以前教會比較興旺吧，現在大部分都是空置著. 只有天主教教會，因為近年來有許多的拉丁移民，還比較有人氣。我們家附近的一所基督教堂，周末才開，去的基本上都是老年人，而且牧師大部分是女的。她們是從牧師學院畢業的，作為一個職業來做牧師的！現在的大學入學考試，已經沒有那麼多的宗教內容了。

Dear Vladimir, you asked me to talk about Christianity today. This is a even bigger requirement than last time. I've started frowning and scratching my head. I didn』t follow my father』s international political profession before, because I saw a lot of events at different times and I started to have a headache. The previous time I was talking about Islam, I already felt that the information was too rich. The content of Christianity today is simply overwhelming. Christianity is more magnificent than Islam. The history and culture of the entire West is the history of Christian religion and Western culture. I heard that one third of the university examinations in the United States were related to Christian religious content. They used this method to rule out an excellent Jewish student of Judaism. Later Jewish children tried to break this limit. There are many religions in the United States, and almost every street has a church. Maybe the church was prosperous before, and most of it is now vacant. Only the Catholic Church, because there are many Latin immigrants in recent years, is still quite popular. A Christian church near our home was opened on weekends. It was basically elderly people, and most of the pastors were women. They graduated from the pastor college and worked as a pastor for a profession! There are not so many religious contents in the current college entrance exams.