伊斯兰教教义决定自己的制度，完全与普世价值相反的制度（中英文版）

当伊拉克人将萨达姆送上绞刑架后许多人欢呼伊拉克的春天来了，伊拉克将迎来与美国一样自由民主的美好社会，其实当时我就隐约觉得事情不可能这么简单。之后的进程也证实了我的担忧，伊拉克虽然经济成绩喜人，但是恐怖事件频发，很难与美好的社会联系一起，之后伊斯兰国的崛起更证实了伊拉克根本就没有春天，它的自由民主与美国相差十万八千里。与此相类似的是，伊朗巴列维王朝自由民主的世俗化改革然而止，而原本已经世俗化的土耳其再次伊斯兰化，为什么会这样？人们百思不得其解，为这二个国家万分惋惜。可是所有这些在今天的我看来都是再正常不过的事，因为伊斯兰社会有自己的终极世界，社会制度，它们就是隐含在可兰经中的政教合一，而不是自由民主，自由民主对他们来说只是一种政治理念，根据我们上面的论述，信仰大于政治理念，人们只会根据信仰选择政教合一而不是相反地选择民主自由。

于是所有困惑也就豁然开朗，没有什么可以阻止人们飞向永生、永恒的翅膀，没有什么可以阻止人们奔向终极世界的脚步，包括所谓自由民主的普世真理也无法阻止这些。伊朗与土耳其选择政教合一的社会，是这二个国家伊斯兰教徒自己的选择，而且也是必然的选择，旁人的惋惜只是皇帝不急太监急而已。同样原因可以解释，为什么美国多年以来一直在全世界推行自由民主但收效甚微？所有这些也佐证了本书的主题之一，自由民主并不是普世的价值，反而是反人性，反实践，它来自于基督新教却与大多数世俗经验，其他宗教的教义相违背，甚至可以说冲突严重，所以自由民主这些所谓的普世价值在其他社会四处碰壁，而与之相反的是伊斯兰的复兴却可以轻易实现。亨廷顿在《文明的冲突与世界秩序的重建》中写道，“1920年，只有四个穆斯林国家——土耳其、沙特阿拉伯、伊朗和阿富汗一保持了非穆斯林统治年代下的某种形式的独立。西方殖民主义的退却缓慢地始于本世纪20年代和30年代，在第二次世界大战之后急剧加速。苏联的瓦解使更多的穆斯林社会获得了独立。根据一项统计，在1757-1919年间，大约有92个穆斯林地区由非穆斯林政府统治;到1995年，在这些地区中有69个恢复了穆斯林的统治，穆斯林人口在其中45个独立国家中占绝对多数。”①因为自由民主只是一种政治理念，而伊斯兰教却是一种信仰。

目前西方许多激烈争论的焦点问题同样与信仰有关，例如同性婚姻合法化问题。美国心理学家协会组织指出，同性恋不是一种病，他们除了性取向与常人不一样外，其他都与常人无异，他们根据目前对人权的理解，认为人有不被无理干涉的自由，只要不妨碍他人，人们的行为不应被禁止，他们认为同性恋是一种正常行为不需要治疗。所以说这些人只是些心理学家而已，并不是什么大思想家、大哲学家，并不是什么决定人类历史的人物，这些所谓的心理学家根本不了解人类，也不了解人类历史，他们甚至不清楚自己在干什么？不知道自己这种行为的恶劣性。他们实际上是企图替代上帝为人类立法，以自己替代上帝，视自己为人类的上帝，他们这样的结论可以引发出许多崩溃性的推论。因为如果不妨碍他人的行为都不应被禁止，那么人类不单单是同性恋，还有很多行为在理性上同样不属于违法犯罪，比如乱伦、群交、吸毒、虐待动物等等很多。甚至一夫一妻制这个社会稳定的基石也会塌陷，同性婚姻都可以，那么一夫多妻，一妻多夫为什么不行？而且还可以有其他无数的奇婚怪恋，如二夫二妻，三夫四妻，包括邪教教主拥有无数的性伴侣都是合理的，既然他们乐意，其他人又何必去干涉呢？等等，而且如果继续推理下去，还有无数更多的变态行为都可以成立，都是合理的，那么如此一来人类社会岂不坍塌崩溃，彻底毁灭。上帝启示圣经本身就是为了约束人类的行为，为人类制定道德规范、行为准则，如果随便突破的话，后果将是很恐怖的，将进入一个妖魔鬼怪横行的变态社会，甚至比大撕裂、大厮杀的改朝换代的乱世更为恐怖，因为这是亡天下之举，是整个传统秩序的坍塌传统社会的毁灭。圣经的规定不能随便突破，因为一突破人类就可以实践无数的，想象得出的变态行为，这也是上帝创造人类时留下的吊诡之处，这个问题如同无限一样，是理性所不能解释的，我想如果康德在世的话，可能将有圣经不能随便突破的认识，作为他二律背反的第五个案例。所以说这些所谓的心理学家根本就不知道自己在干什么？根本就不了解人类，了解人类的历史，他们实际上是在摧毁整个人类社会。

六十年代，美国最高法院判处摩门教一夫四妻为违宪，依据就是违背了传统的社会道德，破坏了社会稳定，虽然美国法律从来没有规定婚姻必须实行一夫一妻制，但美国一直是一个传统的基督教社会，一夫一妻制在大多数人心中认为是必须的、必然的事。当年最高法院这个判决没有引起太大争议，当时美国社会还是传统保守的，还是一个颇为纯粹的基督教社会，如果这个案件放在现在，可能就是另外一个结果了。在2015年，左倾的最高法院就以5:4通过了同性婚姻合法的判决（美国法律很复杂，这个案件起诉反诉好几个来回，我这里只能这么简单介绍），强行在各州推广同性婚姻，这五个愚蠢的最高院法官将被载入史册，因为他们的判决为美国社会带来了瓦解的潜在因素。虽然旧约中明确指出同性恋是一种罪，但是根据新约普遍关爱的原则，我个人认为可以在旧约的基础上宽松处理，同性恋私底下交往或者组建自己的社区，我个人认为应该都是可行的，但是将同性婚姻与神圣、纯洁的一男一女，一夫一妻婚姻等同，实在是很难令人接受。随着同性婚姻的合法化，美国就进入了一个完全变态的社会，经常会看到一些匪夷所思的报道，例如有父母将自己的小孩小小年纪就去变性，理由是尊重小孩自己的选择，可孩子那么小有什么自己的选择呢？而且再完美的手术也是手术，必将带来许多后遗症，为他们后来的生活带来许多不便。另一个例子是，为了尊重变性人的权利，国际奥委会将承认变性人的纪录，这么发展下去奥运会的女子项目将完全被变性人主宰，于是奥运会完全可以称为变性人的运动会，奥运会还有存在的必要吗？这个世界很明显已经越来越荒唐，越来越分崩离析了。

基督教这几年在西方呈衰弱之势，随着基督教的衰弱西方也陷入困境之中，即使睿智如亨廷顿，可以预见美国的多元主义可能造成社会的分裂，但是现实发生的有些事他连想都不敢想。如，美国的奥巴马总统热衷于跨性别的人权，推行双性厕所，这已经是完全与圣经，基督教教义背道而驰了，人的性别是上帝决定的，怎么可以随便变换，这些将使社会全面崩溃瓦解陷入毁灭之中，这种崩溃瓦解比亨廷顿设想的分裂更为可怕，因为这是整个世界观的坍塌，同样是极为恐怖的亡天下之举。唯一庆幸的是川普总统的当选，暂时缓解了这种崩溃，但是之后会怎样谁也不敢保证，今天的美国左右派之间，基督徒与非基督徒之间分裂严重，冲突激烈，分裂为两个国家也是完全有可能的事。今天的欧洲同样由于追求政治正确、多元化，伊斯兰移民、非法移民充斥着巴黎等大城市，并且随着基督教的衰弱，信仰的稀薄，伊斯兰教乘虚而入顺势发展，完全可能成为欧洲的主流宗教。离开基督教，所谓的西方文明在伊斯兰教面前根本就不堪一击，因为离开宗教，文明只是一种理念，可伊斯兰教却是一种信仰，理念、政治理念在信仰面前一无是处、一触即溃。看看今天巴黎的街头，就知道我所言非虚，经常爆发的骚乱，到处燃烧的废弃汽车，如垃圾场一般的香榭里拉大街，而这些还只是开始，我相信在不久的将来，在这些讲究政治正确的政客领导下，欧洲的基督教将完全衰败，伊斯兰最终将占领欧洲，实现当年奥斯曼帝国没有实现的梦想。这些都是亨廷顿想都不敢想的事，而且所有这一切只发生在他去世后的十年间。

而且随着科技的发展，也就诞生一个新的宗教——科技神教，对科技的过分崇拜、相信，认为它可以解决一切问题，这个同样给人类埋下了极大的隐患。我本人对科学持怀疑态度，科学只限制在现象领域内，只是实验科学，它并没有创造规律，规律还是掌握在上帝手中，科学只是不断地实验，不断地总结规律，实验结果出来之前谁也不知会发生什么事？规律是什么？什么才是这些规律的具体内容，这些只有上帝才真正知道，这就使科学存在极大的不确定性，也就存在极大的隐患。试想好莱坞影片中错乱的机器人会不会来到我们身边，人类基因的实验会不会产生毁灭人类的新物种，核战争会不会最终爆发？生化危机中的恐怖场景会不会出现在现实生活中？人类的无限繁殖会不会使地球无法承受而最终爆炸？这些都是未知数，谁也不知道人类的未来会怎样。

有时候我觉得科学就是所谓的上帝之鞭，是上帝创造出来专门用于惩罚背离他的人类，但是我并没有完全否定科学的价值，当它与关爱联系一起时确实给人类带来很多便利。一位失明多年的儿童重见天日那一刻的激动，失聪多年的儿童通过高科技听到了第一声声音的那种欣喜，瘫痪多年的患者通过机器人脚的帮助能够行走时那种兴奋，这些都体现了科学的价值与意义，科学只有与关爱联系一起的时才有意义，才让人感动。如果科学背离了关爱，兄弟之爱而去追求邪恶的话，那么就是另一回事，诸如器官移植，换脑术，盲目追求基因，生化工程，那么科学完全可能给人类的带来毁灭。我觉得上帝与人，科学三者的最佳关系是这样的，假设在一个人类生死存亡的关头，前面有几十条道路，但是其中只有一条生路，其他将给人类带来毁灭，这个时候科学家通过对上帝虔诚的信仰，通过自己扎实雄厚的专业知识，在一番虔诚的祈祷之后，凭直觉选择了其中一条，而这条就是正确的答案，一条通往生命之路，这也是上帝、人、科学这三者最融洽的时候。当然，你可以将这条道路想象为可能的新规律，新能源，新基因技术，新生命技术，新治疗方法等等，只有当科学与关爱联系在一起时上帝才会让你找到正确答案，如果你背离了上帝，那么他完全可以让你选择死路，因为所有的一切毕竟都在他的掌控之中。

不过总体上对人类未来的发展我个人并不乐观，也只能通过本书来缅怀基督教，缅怀那些为了信仰头也不回，义无反顾走进食人族部落的传教士，缅怀那些为了兄弟之爱冒着炮火在战场上抢救双方伤员的修道士，缅怀他们在全世界各地创办的医院，兴办的学校，缅怀他们带领人类走出野蛮愚昧走向文明理性的历程，缅怀以他们为主角演绎的一幕幕激荡人心、波澜壮阔的历史大剧，缅怀他们跌宕起伏、百转千折创建美国的过程，也许能给人们带来一些安慰，一些启示。

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① 引用自《文明的冲突与世界秩序的重建》新华出版社出版，塞缪尔·亨廷顿著，周琪、刘绯、张立平、王圆 译。187页

When the Iraqis sent Saddam to the gallows, many people cheered that the spring of Iraq was coming. Iraq would usher in a beautiful society of freedom and democracy like the United States. In fact, at that time, I vaguely felt that things were unlikely so simple. The subsequent process also made sure my worries. Although Iraq’s economic achievements were gratifying, terrorist incidents broke out frequently. It was hard to connect with a better society. Later, the rise of the Islamic State confirmed that there was no spring in Iraq, and its freedom and democracy were Thousands of miles away from that of the United States. Similar to this, the secularizing reforms of freedom and democracy had halted in the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran. The secularized Turkey has re-Islamicized again. Why is this? People were puzzled,head-scratch, and awfully regretted these two countries. But all these things seem normal to me today because I know that Islamic Society has its own ultimate world and social system, which is the unity of politics and religion implicit in the Koran, not freedom and democracy. Liberal democracy is just a political idea in Islamic Society. According to our above discussion, faith outweighs the political idea, and Islam will only choose the unity of politics and religion according to their faith, not the contrary, liberal democracy.

Therefore, we suddenly see the light, and all the puzzles become clear. Nothing can prevent people from flying to eternal life and eternity with their wings and running toward the ultimate world, including the so-called universal truth of freedom and democracy. Iran and Turkey choose the Society of political and religious unity, which is the choice of the Islamists in these two countries and is also an inevitable choice. The regret of others is a dog meddles in the cats’ mouse business. The same reason can explain why the United States has been promoting freedom and democracy all over the world for many years, but with little effect? All these also support the themes of this book of mine. Freedom and democracy are rather anti-human and anti-practice than universal values. It comes from Christian Protestantism but is contrary to most secular experiences and the teachings of other religions. It can even be said that the conflict is severe. Therefore, the so-called universal values of freedom and democracy knock the head against a brick wall in other societies.

On the contrary, the revival of Islam can be easily achieved. Huntington wrote in ” The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, ” By 1920 only four Muslim countries—Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Afghanistan—remained independent of some form of non-Muslim rule.

The retreat of Western colonialism, in turn, began slowly in the 1920s and 1930s and accelerated dramatically in the aftermath of World War II. The collapse of the Soviet Union brought independence to additional Muslim societies. According to one count, some ninety-two acquisitions of Muslim territory by non-Muslim governments occurred between 1757 and 1919. By 1995, sixty-nine of these territories were once again under Muslim rule, and about forty-five independent states had overwhelmingly Muslim populations. The violent nature of these shifting relationships is reflected in the fact that 50 percent of wars involving pairs of states of different religions between 1820 and 1929 were wars between Muslimsand Christians.① Because freedom and democracy is only a political idea, while Islam is a faith.

In the 1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Mormon monogamy of a husband to four wives was unconstitutional because it violated traditional social morality and undermined social stability. Although American law never stipulated that marriage must be monogamous, the United States had always been a traditionally Christian society. Monogamy is considered necessary and inevitable in the souls of most people. At that time, the Supreme Court’s judgment did not cause controversy because American Society was still traditional and conservative or a relatively pure Christian society. If this case happens now, it may be another result. In 2015, the left-leaning Supreme Court passed the judgment on the legalization of same-sex marriage by 5:4 (American law is very complex, and there are several Counterclaims in this case, so I can only briefly introduce them here). These five stupid Supreme Court judges will nail to the pillory in history because their judgment has brought potential factors for American Society’s disintegration. Although the Old Testament clearly states that homosexuality is a crime, according to the principle of universal love in the New Testament, I personally think it can be handled leniently, loosely on the basis of the Old Testament. Homosexuals can communicate privately or form their own community. However, when those are regarded equivalent to the sacred and pure marriage of one man, one woman, and one husband, one wife, I think it should be infeasible; it’s really hard to accept. With the legalization of same-sex marriage, the United States has turned into a completely abnormal society. We often see some fantastic reports. For example, some parents change the gender of their children at a young age to respect their children’s own choices, but what are their own choices for children so young? Moreover, no matter how perfect the operation is, an operation is also an operation that will bring many sequelae and inconveniences later in life.

Another example is to respect the rights of transgender people. The IOC will recognize their records. If this goes on, the women’s sports at the Olympic Games will be completely dominated by transgender. Therefore, the Olympic Games can be called transgender games. Is there still a need for the Olympic Games? The world is obviously becoming more and more absurd and falling apart.

Moreover, a new religion, the religion of science and technology, was born with the development of science and technology. It worships and believes that science and technology can solve all problems, which also sows a significant potential danger for humans. I am skeptical about Science; Science is only limited to the realm of phenomena. It is only an experimental science and does not create laws. Laws are still in the hands of God. Science just constantly experiments and summarizes laws. No one knows what will happen before the experimental results come out; what is the law? What is the specific content of these laws, which only God actually knows? All this makes science have great uncertainty and great hidden dangers. Just imagine whether the disordered robots in Hollywood films will come to us, whether the experiment of human genes will produce new species that will destroy humans, and whether nuclear war will eventually break out? Will the horror scenes in the biochemical crisis appear in real life? Will the infinite reproduction of humans make the earth unbearable and eventually explode? These are all unknowns. No one knows what the future of humans will be.

It is undeniable that technology has brought convenience to human life, but sometimes it is unclear whether these conveniences are really conveniences. When there was no TV, the family gathered together after dinner, chatting and reading; it was sweetness and light. When there was TV, in the beginning, the atmosphere was nice. The family sat around the TV. Later, TV became popular, and everyone hid in their individual room to watch their favorite programs. Then, the mobile phone came, people held the mobile phone anywhere, any time, even new people who used mobile phones to communicate between husband and wife appeared. It is really unclear whether these technologies do well for humans in this way.

Sometimes I think science is the so-called whip of God, created by God to punish humans for deviating from Him. However, I do not completely deny the value of science. When science is associated with love, it will bring a lot of convenience to humans. What excitement is the moment when a child, who has been blind for many years, sees the sun again? How gleeful when juvenile deaf for many years hears the first sound through high technology? And How cheerful when a patient paralyzed for many years can walk with the help of robot feet. All these reflect the value and meaning of science. Science only makes sense and gets moving when it is connected with love. If science deflects from love, brotherly love to pursue evil, in that case, it is another matter, such as organ transplantation, brain replacement, blind pursuit of the gene, and biochemical engineering. Then science may bring destruction to humans. I think the best relationship between God, man, and science is like that; suppose there are dozens of roads ahead at the moment of human life and death, but there is only one way to live, and the others will bring destruction to humans. At this time, scientists, through their devout belief in God and their solid professional knowledge, after a pious prayer, Intuitively chose one of them, and it is the correct answer, a road to life. This is also the time when God, man, and Science are most harmonious. Of course, you can regard the road as possible new laws, new energy, new gene technology, new life technology, new treatment methods, etc. Only when science is linked with love will God let you find the correct answer. If you turn away from God, he can let you choose the dead end because everything is under his control.

However, on the whole, I take a dim view of the human future. I can only, through this book, cherish the memory of Christianity and honor the missionaries who, for faith, went into the cannibal tribe with honor-bound, without a backward glance. I revere the monks who braved crossfire to rescue the wounded on both sides of the battlefield for the love of brothers and commemorate their founding the hospitals and schools worldwide. I reminisce the journey of Christians leading humans out of barbarism and ignorance to civilization and rationality, reminiscing the soul-stirring, spectacular historical dramas performed by Christians as the protagonists. I retrospect their twists and turns, tooth and nail of creating the United States, wishing that my book may bring some comfort and enlightenment to humans.

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①   Samuel Huntington “The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order”, Xinhua Publishing House, trans Zhou Qi, Liu Fei, Zhang Liping and Wang Yuan. P 187