因为他们的心理处于低等动物的水平，而人类社会已经进化到了用更加复杂的方法来称王称霸，比方说用投票的方法。

Because their psychology stayed on the level of simple animal, the society of human beings had evolved to use more complicated method to claim the leader, such as voting.

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他号召所有先知为友爱、建立公正秩序以及人类社会共同的爱而崇敬上帝。

All Prophets called for the worship of God, for love and brotherhood, for the establishment of justice and for love in human society.

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水的持有者就是有着不同凡响的创造力的水瓶座，以一个人的形象将宝瓶中的水缓缓倾泻下来，而宝瓶则代表了人类社会。

The water bearer symbol of the creative genius Aquarius, that shows the identity of a man pouring forth water from a jug symbolizes the human community.

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The message of the flood story also seems to be that when humans destroy the moral basis of society, when they are violent or cruel or unkind, they endanger the very existence of that society.

而洪水所表达的信息是,当人类毁掉了社会的道德根基，当人类变得暴力，残忍，这都会危及到人类社会的存在。

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What better way to drive home the point that inhumanity and violence undermine the very foundations of society than to describe a situation in which a cosmic catastrophe results from human corruption and violence.

我们应该铭记在心的一点是,任何非人道的行为都会侵蚀人类社会存在的根基,而不是简单的描述一个人类因其堕落和血腥,招致的一场大灾难的场景。

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You may think you've gotten away with something, but every act of social exploitation, every act of moral corruption, pollutes the sanctuary more and more until such time as God is driven out entirely and human society is devoured by its own viciousness and death-dealing.

犯了罪的人也许认为自己侥幸逃过一劫，然而他对所作的每一个行为，每一次的道德堕落，都会越来越玷污圣所,知道有一天上帝完全弃圣所而去,人类社会充斥着我们自身的邪恶和毁灭行为。

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