- 没读过这书，但读到各位的讨论，还有中文本身的翻译，觉得有明显的偏见。
对宗教文明的评判，最终堕落到以当下经济和军事实力来衡量，是我们这辈人面临的悲哀。佛教要能与基督教整合的话，人类早就实现共产主义了，所以我觉得他对佛的理解很初级。
另外再抄几句亨廷顿的原话，宗教在他的著作中作为文明起源的根基，只是作了简单的综述：
......perhaps the most important cultural diffusion not the result of conquest was the spread of Buddhism to China, which occurred about six hundred years after its origin in northern India.
......between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, European culture began to develop, facilitated by the “eager and systematic appropriation of suitable elements from the higher cilvilizations of Islam and Byzantium, together with adaption of this inheritance to the special conditions and interests of the West.”
......the expansion of the West was also facilitated by the superiortity in organization, discipline, and training of its troops and subsequently by the superior weapons, transport, logistics and medical services resulting from its leadership in the Industrial Revolution. The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other cilivizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
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