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1925: The Scopes Trial Chastens Fundamentalists
1925年：惩戒基要派的“斯科普斯审判”
When populist politician William Jennings Bryan faced off against attorney Clarence Darrow,
民粹主义政治家威廉·詹宁斯·布莱恩与律师克拉伦斯·达罗正面对峙时，
it was the highlight of the Scopes trial—a case about teaching evolution in Tennessee that had captured national attention—
斯科普斯审判——田纳西州进化论教学引发的一场引起了全国轰动的案例——进入了最为激烈的阶段，
and the capstone of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy in the Protestant churches.
新教教会里上演的基要派与自由派的争论也达到了高潮。
Darrow grilled Bryan on his interpretation of well-known Bible stories.
达罗开始盘问布莱恩对圣经里那些脍炙人口的故事的理解。
Did he really believe that the whale swallowed Jonah,
他是否真的相信鲸鱼吞了约拿，
that Joshua made the sun stand still and that Adam and Eve were the First people?
相信是约书亚让太阳静止不动的，以及相信亚当和夏娃是最早的人类。
Bryan answered yes, but Darrow made him admit he didn’t know how these things happened and didn’t know any geology or ancient history.
布莱恩回答说相信，但达罗还是令他承认了他并不知道那些事情是怎么发生的，也承认了他对地质学或古代史没有任何了解。
The bigcity journalists reported that Darrow had revealed Bryan’s ignorance and the absurdity of his biblical literalism.
大城市的记者们报道说，达罗揭露了布莱恩的无知和他对圣经的字面理解的荒谬。
The Great Commoner died five days later, as if the defeat had killed him.
这位“伟大的平民”五天后便已撒手人寰，仿佛是辩论失败要了他的命。
The fundamentalists retreated from battle, dismissed by the rest of society,
被社会各界否认的基要派撤出了正面战场，
but they flourished under the radar of the press, planting churches from California to Virginia.
避开媒体的视线，在加州到弗吉尼亚州遍地开花，植堂事业发展得十分兴旺。
In 1979, Jerry Falwell surprised everyone by launching a powerful political movement of fundamentalists and other conservative evangelicals.
1979年，杰里·福尔韦尔发动了基要派等保守主义福音派教徒组成的一场势力庞大的政治运动，一举震惊了所有人。
Thirty-seven years later, with white evangelical voters making up more than a quarter of the electorate,
37年后，福音派白人选民占据了全体选民四分之一以上的份额，
the Christian right helped elect Donald Trump.
唐纳德·特朗普的当选离不开这些基督教右派（保守派）的功劳。
And that was by FRANCES FITZGERALD.
本文作者弗朗西斯·菲茨杰拉德。
FitzGerald is the 2017 winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction for The Evangelicals.
菲茨杰拉德凭借《福音派》一书获得了2017年美国国家书评奖非小说类作品奖。
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