They don't legislate compassion. It's likely that these were considered acts of, who knows, personal conscience, religious conviction, something that was between the individual and society and their God.

也没有给同情立法，这可能是由于人们认为这些行为,只关乎个人良知，宗教信念或者是，介于个人，社会和上帝之间的某一事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I was not a part of this growing conversation about religion and public life in the 1990s.

我并未参与到90年代日益加大的,对宗教和社会生活的讨论中。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Contradictions and inconsistencies in contemporary religious society are so much like, or at least look so much like, the contradictions and inconsistencies that we find in a work of literature, that we find in a poem.

在永久的宗教社会中矛盾和对立,很像，或者是至少看起来很像，我们从文学著作和诗歌中,发现的矛盾和对立。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选