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“Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.”

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下文摘自：http://www.iusb.edu/%7Ejournal/1999/Paper9.html
Several of the Founding Fathers (US) held an accepted belief in general principles of religion. As Ben Franklin (本杰明.富兰克林）noted in a letter to Ezra Stiles in 1790:

Here is my creed. I believe in One God, the Creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable Service we can render Him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental principles of all sound religion.12

These general principles of religion presented a belief structure independent of interpretation. Simple religion, as far as Jefferson（托玛斯.杰弗逊） and Franklin were concerned, represented what all could agree upon. Jefferson’s axiom that ‘‘What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong,’’13 formed the basic framework of amiability that ultimately characterized his theology.

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攻击别人侵犯人权时，咄咄逼人，以点盖面。对於自己同样的侵犯人权行为，
轻描淡写，是个别现象。民主可赖帐，就是好。


BRUTAL: Woman soldier points at genitals of hooded and naked Iraqis


VILE: Iraqi PoWs are forced to parade before their jeering captors


HUMILIATION: Soldiers grin behind the pyramid of captives


一名埃及保险代理商在看过这些照片后愤怒地说：“这些侮辱人的照片令人讨厌，更令人愤怒，那种场面实在太丑陋了。”

据悉，这些已经煽起阿拉伯世界更加仇恨美国的图片，是去年由美军士兵自己拍摄的，地点是位于巴格达附近的阿布.格莱布监狱(Abu Ghraib)。今年3月，美国陆军宣布，第800宪兵旅6名士兵因被指控残酷对待20多名战俘而被送上军事法庭，具体罪名包括玩忽职守、虐待、人身伤害和对他人采取下流举动等。

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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
-- Benjamin Franklin (attributed: source unknown)

We must hang together, gentlemen ... else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
-- Benjamin Franklin (attributed: source unknown)