There has been a slippage from Christian spirituality into something like a pagan naturalism, and it's a world in which all things are physical.

它们从基督教的精神性,滑向了一种异端的类似自然主义的东西，它们描绘的世界里万物都是物质的。

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They're not actually present in the real world of Milton's hell, or if it's a pagan god who's mentioned, Milton will tell us that the pagan god was just an early manifestation of one of the fallen angels.

事实上他们没有在弥尔顿笔下的地狱中出现，或者作为异教的神被提及，弥尔顿将告诉我们那些异教的神只是堕落天使中,一名天使早期的表象。

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