The Constitution separates religion from government.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

.. Because you wouldn't have... You wouldn't be able to make money, you wouldn't be able to own property if there wasn't that socially, like, if society wasn't stable, and that's completely different from religion.

因为你不可能。,如果没有社会条件，如果社会不稳定,你就赚不到钱，更别提拥有财产了，这跟宗教完全是两码事。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Reason, although it was employed for all sorts of practical and intellectual purposes in some of these cultures, it still lacked independence from religion and it lacked the high status to challenge the most basic received ideas.

尽管在这些文化中,理性在只是理论上,实际活动中都有被利用,但是它始终无法与宗教割裂,地位也很低,而不被大多数人接受

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So,essentially we borrow from research in psychology that shows that religion affects believers' moods, happiness and risk-taking attitudes.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

I wasn't able to go to the actual graduation ceremony but I was at the class-day ceremony for those seniors to graduating from the religion department. -Right.

额，我没有去成毕业典礼仪式,但我参加了宗教系毕业生典礼,但我参加了宗教系毕业生典礼，-恩。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Oloria says she feels closer to her Muslim religion and more comfortable in public, because she believes it hides her from the eyes of men.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

These are movements away from true spirit-filled religion in his view.

他的观点也有些活动，远离崇尚精神的宗教。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Religion can't be divorced from social, political, and historical contexts and issues.

宗教无法脱离于社会，政治，及历史环境与事件。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So, which is it, which is part of the question that came from over here, You have on the one hand the claim that Israelite religion is essentially continuous with Ancient Near Eastern polytheism.

刚才那个男生问的是什么问题？,一方面，有人说以色列宗教从本质上,和古近东的多神论是一脉相承的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They also had a creation story. They had a flood story. They did animal sacrifices. They observed purity taboos. Israelite religion was another Ancient Near Eastern religion and they differed from their neighbors only over the number of gods they worshiped: one or many.

他们都有原创的神话，他们都有一个关于洪水的神话,都有动物牺牲，他们都尊崇高洁的竹子,以色列宗教是另一种古近东宗教，它们和别的宗教,唯一不同之处就在于崇拜的神的数量：一个还是多个。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

If you remember from reading the Iliad and Odyssey, it is absolutely critical in the Greek religion that people be properly buried, because if they're not, then their shade goes on forever in misery and pain.

伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》中提到过,死者得到妥善安葬,在希腊信仰中是极其重要的,如若不然,死者的灵会永远在绝望和痛苦中飘荡

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Christianity's main roots were in Judaism, a religion that worshipped a single, all powerful deity, who is sharply separated from human beings, makes great moral demands upon them, and judges them all, even kings and emperors.

基督的主要来源是犹太教,这种宗教崇拜单一的,无所不能的神,它独立于人类而存在,作出种种道德要求和评判,即使君主和帝王也不例外

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选