Consider the following: every society which we know operates within the medium of belief or faith of some kind.

考虑下例所提：每一个社会,已知的社会，运作的媒介,多少都含有一些信念或信仰。

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Okay, it could be a bit of a problem if this text has become the basis for a system of religious faith or belief, and your assumptions about it are that its telling a truth that is singular in nature.

如果这本书成为一些宗教信念系统的基本,那就有问题了,你会臆断，这本书上的都是真确的，都是非凡的。

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Every society no matter of what kind requires a kind of faith in its ruling principles in its fundamental beliefs. But belief seems to be threatened from at least two sources.

每一个社会，无论其型态为何,都需要在其统治原则及基本信念中,加入些信仰，但是信念,似乎受到至少两项来源的威胁。

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Most of us most of the time hold these beliefs as a matter of faith as a matter of belief because we have learned about them from childhood because they were written by Thomas Jefferson or some other reputed high authority.

大部份的人一向将这些信念,奉为信仰，信条,因为我们从小,就是这样受教育,也因为它们是由托马斯？杰斐逊,及其它著名权贵所写。

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