It's time to reclaim religion | Sharon Brous

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Joanna Pietrulewicz

Translator: Nika Kotnik Reviewer: Tilen Pigac - EFZG

I was a new mother

Bila sem mlada mamica,

and a young rabbi

in mlada rabinka

in the spring of 2004

spomladi leta 2004

and the world was in shambles.

in svet je bil v razsulu.

Maybe you remember.

Morda se spomnite.

Every day, we heard devastating reports from the war in Iraq.

Vsak dan smo slišali grozna poročila iz vojne v Iraku.

There were waves of terror rolling across the globe.

Po celem svetu so se širili valovi terorja.

It seemed like humanity was spinning out of control.

Zdelo se je, kot da človeštvo uhaja izpod nadzora.

Spominjam se noči, ko sem brala

I remember the night that I read

about the series of coordinated bombings

o seriji koordiniranih bombnih napadov

na podzemni železnici v Madridu,

in the subway system in Madrid,

and I got up and I walked over to the crib

in vstala sem in šla do zibke,

where my six-month-old baby girl

kjer je moja šest mesečna dojenčica

lay sleeping sweetly,

sladko spala,

in slišala sem ritem njenega dihanja,

and I heard the rhythm of her breath,

and I felt this sense of urgency coursing through my body.

in čutila sem občutek nujnosti, kako mi teče skozi telo.

Živeli smo v času tektonskih premikov v ideologijah,

We were living through a time of tectonic shifts in ideologies,

in politics, in religion, in populations.

v politiki, v religiji, v populacijah.

Everything felt so precarious.

Vse se je zdelo tako nestabilno.

And I remember thinking,

In pomislila sem:

"My God, what kind of world did we bring this child into?

"Moj Bog, v kakšen svet sva prinesla tega otroka?"

And what was I as a mother and a religious leader

In kaj sem bila kot mama in verski vodja

pripravljena storiti glede tega?

willing to do about it?

Of course, I knew it was clear

Seveda mi je bilo jasno,

that religion would be a principle battlefield

da bo religija glavno bojišče,

in this rapidly changing landscape,

v tej hitro spreminjajoči se pokrajini,

in že je bilo jasno,

and it was already clear

that religion was a significant part of the problem.

da je bila religija velik del problema.

Zame je bilo vprašanje,

The question for me was,

could religion also be part of the solution?

bi bila lahko religija tudi del rešitve?

Now, throughout history,

Skozi zgodovino,

so ljudje storili hude zločine in grozodejstva

people have committed horrible crimes and atrocities

in the name of religion.

v imenu religije.

In ko smo vstopili v 21. stoletje,

And as we entered the 21st century,

it was very clear that religious extremism was once again on the rise.

je bilo jasno, da je verski ekstremizem zopet v porastu.

Our studies now show

Naše študije kažejo,

da je v zadnjih 15, 20 letih

that over the course of the past 15, 20 years,

hostilities and religion-related violence

število sovražnih dejanj in verskega nasilja

have been on the increase all over the world.

naraslo po vsem svetu.

But we don't even need the studies to prove it,

Ampak za to sploh ne potrebujemo študij,

because I ask you, how many of us are surprised today

ker če vas vprašam, koliko vas je dandanes presenečenih,

when we hear the stories of a bombing or a shooting,

ko slišite novice o bombardiranju ali streljanju,

when we later find out that the last word that was uttered

in ko kasneje izvemo, da je bila zadnja beseda

before the trigger is pulled or the bomb is detonated

pred pritiskom na sprožilec ali detonacijo bombe,

is the name of God?

ime Boga?

Komaj še vzbudi začudenje,

It barely raises an eyebrow today

when we learn that yet another person

ko izvemo, da se je nekdo spet

has decided to show his love of God

odločil, da dokaže svojo ljubezen do Boga s tem,

by taking the lives of God's children.

da vzame življenja Božjih otrok.

In America, religious extremism

V Ameriki je verski ekstremizem

v podobi belega krščanskega ekstremista, ki nasprotuje splavu,

looks like a white, antiabortion Christian extremist

walking into Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs

ki vstopi v Planned Parenthood (Načrtovanje družine) v Colorado Springsu

and murdering three people.

in ubije tri ljudi.

It also looks like a couple

Prav tako je to par,

ki ga navdahne islamska država,

inspired by the Islamic State

walking into an office party in San Bernardino and killing 14.

gre na službeno zabavo v San Bernardinu in jih ubije 14.

And even when religion-related extremism does not lead to violence,

In celo, ko verski ekstremizem ne vodi v nasilje,

it is still used as a political wedge issue,

je še vedno uporabljen kot politični način,

cynically leading people to justify the subordination of women,

ki cinično vodi ljudi, da opravičujejo podrejenost žensk,

the stigmatization of LGBT people,

stigmatizacijo LGBT ljudi,

rasizem, islamofobijo in antisemitizem.

racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.

This ought to concern deeply

To bi moralo zelo skrbeti tiste,

those of us who care about the future of religion

ki nam je mar za prihodnost religije

and the future of faith.

in prihodnost vere.

We need to call this what it is:

Moramo reči bobu bob:

to je velik neuspeh religije.

a great failure of religion.

Ampak to niti ni edini izziv, s katerim se religija spopada danes.

But the thing is, this isn't even the only challenge that religion faces today.

Obenem, ko potrebujemo

At the very same time

that we need religion to be a strong force against extremism,

religijo kot močno silo proti ekstremizmu,

it is suffering from a second pernicious trend,

pa hkrati trpi za še drugim škodljivim trendom,

what I call religious routine-ism.

ki mu jaz pravim verski rutinizem.

This is when our institutions and our leaders

To je, ko so naše institucije in naši voditelji

are stuck in a paradigm that is rote and perfunctory,

zataknjeni v paradigmi, ki je naučena in enolična,

devoid of life, devoid of vision

brez življenja, brez vizije,

and devoid of soul.

in brez duše.

Let me explain what I mean like this.

Naj razložim, kaj mislim s tem.

One of the great blessings of being a rabbi

Eden izmed največjih blagoslovov tega, da sem rabinka,

is standing under the chuppah, under the wedding canopy, with a couple,

je stati pod belim ogrinjalom, s parom,

and helping them proclaim publicly

in jima pomagam javno razglasiti

and make holy the love that they found for one another.

ljubezen, ki sta jo našla drug v drugem, in jo blagosloviti.

I want to ask you now, though,

Sedaj pa vas naprošam,

to think maybe from your own experience

da si zamislite, iz lastnih izkušenj,

or maybe just imagine it

ali pa si samo predstavljate

about the difference between the intensity of the experience

razliko v intenziteti izkušnje

under the wedding canopy,

pod belim poročnim ogrinjalom,

and maybe the experience of the sixth or seventh anniversary.

in morda izkušnjo šeste ali sedme obletnice.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

And if you're lucky enough to make it 16 or 17 years,

In če imate srečo, da pridete do 16. ali 17. leta,

if you're like most people, you probably wake up in the morning

če ste taki kot večina, se zjutraj zbudite,

realizing that you forgot to make a reservation at your favorite restaurant

ugotovite, da ste pozabili rezervirati mizo v vaši najljubši restavraciji,

pozabili ste tudi na čestitko

and you forgot so much as a card,

and then you just hope and pray that your partner also forgot.

in tako samo še molite in upate, da je pozabil tudi partner.

Well, religious ritual and rites

No, verski rituali in obredi

were essentially designed to serve the function of the anniversary,

so bili sprva zasnovani, da služijo kot obletnica,

kot posoda, v katerem shranimo ostanke

to be a container in which we would hold on to the remnants

of that sacred, revelatory encounter

tistega svetega, srečanja spoznanja,

ki je religijo sploh začelo.

that birthed the religion in the first place.

The problem is that after a few centuries,

Problem pa je, da po nekaj stoletjih,

the date remains on the calendar,

datum ostaja označen,

but the love affair is long dead.

a ljubezen je že dolgo mrtva.

That's when we find ourselves in endless, mindless repetitions

Takrat se znajdemo v neskončnih, brezumnih ponovitvah

of words that don't mean anything to us,

besed, ki nam nič ne pomenijo,

vstajamo in sedamo, ker nas je nekdo tako prosil,

rising and being seated because someone has asked us to,

holding onto jealously guarded doctrine

se oklepamo ljubosumno zastražene doktrine,

that's completely and wildly out of step with our contemporary reality,

ki je popolnoma in neverjetno nepovezana z današnjo realnostjo,

engaging in perfunctory practice

ukvarjanje s površno prakso

simply because that's the way things have always been done.

preprosto zato, ker smo stvari vedno počeli tako.

Religija upada v Združenih državah Amerike.

Religion is waning in the United States.

Across the board, churches and synagogues and mosques

Vsepovsod se v cerkvah, sinagogah in mošejah

are all complaining

pritožujejo,

about how hard it is to maintain relevance

kako težko ohranjajo pomembnost

pri generacijah mladih ljudi, ki se zdijo popolnoma nezainteresirani,

for a generation of young people who seem completely uninterested,

ne samo v institucije, ki stojijo v srcu naših tradicij,

not only in the institutions that stand at the heart of our traditions

but even in religion itself.

ampak celo v religijo samo.

And what they need to understand

In razumeti morajo,

is that there is today a generation of people

da je danes tu generacija ljudi,

ki se ji nasilje verskega ekstremizma gnusi prav tako,

who are as disgusted by the violence of religious extremism

as they are turned off

kot jih odbija

by the lifelessness of religious routine-ism.

mrtvilo verskega rutinizma.

Of course there is a bright spot to this story.

Seveda je tudi svetla stran v tej zgodbi.

Given the crisis of these two concurrent trends in religious life,

Zaradi krize teh dveh sočasnih trendov v verskem življenju,

about 12 or 13 years ago, I set out to try to determine

sem se kakšnih 12 ali 13 let nazaj odločila ugotoviti,

če obstaja način,

if there was any way

that I could reclaim the heart of my own Jewish tradition,

da spet prevzamem srce lastnih judovskih tradicij,

to help make it meaningful and purposeful again

da bodo spet imela smisel in namen

in a world on fire.

v tem svetu v plamenih.

I started to wonder,

Začela sem se spraševati,

what if we could harness some of the great minds of our generation

če bi lahko uporabili nekaj velikih umov naše generacije,

in na drzen in robusten in izviren način zopet premislili,

and think in a bold and robust and imaginative way again

kako bo izgledala naslednja ponovitev verskega življenja.

about what the next iteration of religious life would look like?

Now, we had no money, no space, no game plan,

Nismo imeli denarja, ne prostora, ne načrta,

but we did have email.

imeli pa smo elektronsko pošto.

So my friend Melissa and I sat down and we wrote an email

Z mojo prijateljico Meliso sva se usedli in napisali e-pošto,

which we sent out to a few friends and colleagues.

ki sva jo poslali nekaj prijateljem in kolegom.

It basically said this:

Pisalo je nekaj takega:

"Before you bail on religion,

"Preden se odpoveste religiji,

why don't we come together this Friday night

zakaj se ne bi dobili ta petek zvečer

and see what we might make of our own Jewish inheritance?"

in videli, kaj lahko naredimo z našo judovsko dediščino?"

We hoped maybe 20 people would show up.

Upali sva, da bo morda prišlo 20 ljudi.

It turned out 135 people came.

Prišlo jih je 135.

Bili so ciniki in iskalci,

They were cynics and seekers,

atheists and rabbis.

ateisti in rabini.

Many people said that night that it was the first time

Veliko jih je tisto noč reklo, da je bilo to prvič,

that they had a meaningful religious experience in their entire lives.

da so imeli smiselno versko izkušnjo v celem življenju.

And so I set out to do the only rational thing

In zato sem se odločila za edino smiselno stvar,

that someone would do in such a circumstance:

ki bi jo nekdo v teh okoliščinah storil:

I quit my job and tried to build this audacious dream,

pustila sem službo in poskušala zgraditi te predrzne sanje,

a reinvented, rethought religious life

na novo izumljenega, na novo premišljenega verskega življenja,

which we called "IKAR,"

ki smo mu rekli "IKAR,"

which means "the essence" or "the heart of the matter."

kar pomeni "esenca" ali " bistvo svari."

Now, IKAR is not alone

IKAR ni sam

v današnji religiozni pokrajini.

out there in the religious landscape today.

There are Jewish and Christian and Muslim and Catholic religious leaders,

Tu so judovski, krščanski, muslimanski in katoliški verski voditelji,

many of them women, by the way,

mnogi izmed njih ženske, mimogrede,

who have set out to reclaim the heart of our traditions,

ki so se odločili, da si ponovno prilastijo srce svojih tradicij,

who firmly believe that now is the time for religion to be part of the solution.

ki trdno verjamejo, da je čas, da religija postane del rešitve.

We are going back into our sacred traditions

Vračamo se k našim svetim tradicijam

in prepoznavamo, da imajo vse naše tradicije

and recognizing that all of our traditions

contain the raw material to justify violence and extremism,

v sebi surov material, s katerim lahko opravičujemo nasilje in ekstremizem,

in prav tako vsebujejo surov material za opravičevanje sočutja,

and also contain the raw material to justify compassion,

sobivanja in prijaznosti -

coexistence and kindness --

that when others choose to read our texts as directives for hate and vengeance,

ko se drugi odločijo brati naše tekste kot navodila za sovraštvo in maščevanje,

we can choose to read those same texts

mi lahko izberemo, da bomo te iste tekste brali

as directives for love and for forgiveness.

kot navodila za ljubezen in odpuščanje.

Sedaj vidim,

I have found now

in communities as varied as Jewish indie start-ups on the coasts

v tako raznolikih skupnostih, kot so judovski indie start-upi na obali,

to a woman's mosque,

ženska mošeja,

to black churches in New York and in North Carolina,

temnopolta cerkev v New Yorku in Severni Karolini,

to a holy bus loaded with nuns

sveti avtobus poln nun,

that traverses this country with a message of justice and peace,

ki se vozi po tej deželi s sporočilom o pravici in miru,

da je tu skupni religijski etos,

that there is a shared religious ethos

that is now emerging in the form of revitalized religion in this country.

ki se sedaj pojavlja v obliki revitalizirane religije v tej državi.

And while the theologies and the practices vary very much

Čeprav se teologije in prakse med seboj zelo razlikujejo

between these independent communities,

med temi neodvisnimi skupnostmi,

what we can see are some common, consistent threads between them.

lahko vidimo skupno nit med njimi.

I'm going to share with you four of those commitments now.

Z vami bom sedaj delila štiri izmed teh zavez.

The first is wakefulness.

Prva je čuječnost.

Živimo v času,

We live in a time today

in which we have unprecedented access

ko imamo dostop brez primere

to information about every global tragedy

do informacij o vsaki globalni tragediji,

that happens on every corner of this Earth.

ki se zgodi na kateremkoli koncu sveta.

Within 12 hours, 20 million people

V 12 urah je 20 milijonov ljudi

saw that image of Aylan Kurdi's little body

videlo sliko telesa Aylana Kurdija,

washed up on the Turkish shore.

ki ga je naplavilo na turško obalo.

We all saw this picture.

Vsi smo videli to sliko.

We saw this picture of a five-year-old child

Videli smo sliko tega petletnega otroka,

pulled out of the rubble of his building in Aleppo.

ki so ga potegnili iz ruševin stavbe v Alepu.

Ko vidimo te slike,

And once we see these images,

we are called to a certain kind of action.

smo poklicani k akciji.

My tradition tells a story of a traveler who is walking down a road

Moja tradicija pripoveduje zgodbo popotnika, ki potuje po cesti

when he sees a beautiful house on fire,

in vidi prelepo hišo v plamenih

and he says, "How can it be that something so beautiful would burn,

in reče: "Kako lahko nekaj tako lepega gori

in se zdi, da ni nikomur mar?"

and nobody seems to even care?"

So too we learn that our world is on fire,

Tudi mi vidimo, da naš svet gori

and it is our job to keep our hearts and our eyes open,

in naša naloga je, da imamo odprta srca in oči,

and to recognize that it's our responsibility

da prepoznamo, da je naša odgovornost

pogasiti te plamene.

to help put out the flames.

This is extremely difficult to do.

To je izredno težko.

Psychologists tell us that the more we learn about what's broken in our world,

Psihologi nam pravijo, da več kot vemo o tem, koliko stvari je na svetu narobe,

the less likely we are to do anything.

manj verjetno je, da bomo kaj ukrenili glede tega.

It's called psychic numbing.

Temu pravimo psihična otopelost.

We just shut down at a certain point.

Na neki točki se enostavno izklopimo.

Well, somewhere along the way, our religious leaders forgot

No, na neki točki so naši verski voditelji pozabili,

that it's our job to make people uncomfortable.

da je naša naloga, da je ljudem neprijetno.

It's our job to wake people up,

Naša naloga je, da zbudimo ljudi,

da jih izvlečemo iz apatije

to pull them out of their apathy

in v trpljenje,

and into the anguish,

and to insist that we do what we don't want to do

in vztrajamo, da naredimo tisto česar nočemo

in vidimo tisto, česar nočemo.

and see what we do not want to see.

Because we know that social change only happens --

Zato ker vemo, da se družbene spremembe zgodijo -

(Applause)

(Aplavz)

when we are awake enough to see that the house is on fire.

le takrat, ko smo dovolj čuječi, da opazimo gorečo hišo.

The second principle is hope,

Drugi princip je upanje,

and I want to say this about hope.

in o upanju želim reči to.

Hope is not naive,

Upanje ni naivno

and hope is not an opiate.

in upanje ni opij.

Hope may be the single greatest act of defiance

Upanje je morda najboljše dejanje upora

against a politics of pessimism

proti politiki pesimizma

and against a culture of despair.

in proti kulturi obupa.

Because what hope does for us

Kaj upanje naredi, je,

is it lifts us out of the container

da nas dvigne iz tega prostora,

ki nas drži in obdaja od zunaj,

that holds us and constrains us from the outside,

and says, "You can dream and think expansively again.

in pravi: "Spet lahko sanjaš in misliš razsežno.

That they cannot control in you."

Tega v tebi ne morejo nadzorovati."

I saw hope made manifest in an African-American church

Videla sem, kako se je upanje manifestiralo v afriško-ameriški cerkvi,

in the South Side of Chicago this summer,

na južni strani Chicaga to poletje,

where I brought my little girl,

kamor sem pripeljala svojo punčko,

ki ima danes 13 let

who is now 13

and a few inches taller than me,

in je že višja od mene,

da je slišala mojega prijatelja, častitega Otis Mossa pridigati.

to hear my friend Rev. Otis Moss preach.

That summer, there had already been 3,000 people shot

Tisto poletje je bilo ustreljenih že 3.000 ljudi

med januarjem in julijem v Chicagu.

between January and July in Chicago.

Šli sva v to cerkev in poslušali častitega Mossa pridigati,

We went into that church and heard Rev. Moss preach,

in potem ko je končal,

and after he did,

je zbor prelepih žensk, 100 žensk,

this choir of gorgeous women, 100 women strong,

stood up and began to sing.

vstal in začel peti.

"I need you. You need me.

"Jaz rabim tebe. Ti rabiš mene.

I love you. I need you to survive."

Rad te imam. Potrebujem te, da preživim."

And I realized in that moment

In v tistem trenutku sem spoznala,

that this is what religion is supposed to be about.

da je to smisel religije.

Smisel je, da ljudem vrne občutek smisla,

It's supposed to be about giving people back a sense of purpose,

a sense of hope,

občutek upanja,

a sense that they and their dreams fundamentally matter in this world

občutek, da oni in njihove sanje nekaj pomenijo v tem svetu,

that tells them that they don't matter at all.

ki jim pravi, da so nepomembni.

The third principle is the principle of mightiness.

Tretji princip je princip mogočnosti.

There's a rabbinic tradition that we are to walk around

Tradicija rabinov je, da hodimo okrog

with two slips of paper in our pockets.

z dvema listoma papirja v žepu.

One says, "I am but dust and ashes."

Na enem piše: "Sem samo prah in pepel."

Ne gre zame.

It's not all about me.

I can't control everything, and I cannot do this on my own.

Vsega ne morem nadzorovati, in tega ne morem početi sam.

The other slip of paper says, "For my sake the world was created."

Na drugem piše: "Zame je bil ustvarjen svet."

Kar pomeni, da je res, da ne morem narediti vsega,

Which is to say it's true that I can't do everything,

a zagotovo lahko naredim nekaj.

but I can surely do something.

Lahko odpuščam.

I can forgive.

I can love.

Lahko ljubim.

I can show up.

Lahko se prikažem.

Lahko protestiram.

I can protest.

I can be a part of this conversation.

Lahko sem del tega pogovora.

We even now have a religious ritual,

Sedaj imamo celo verski obred,

a posture,

držo telesa,

ki v sebi drži paradoks med nemočjo in močjo.

that holds the paradox between powerlessness and power.

In the Jewish community,

V judovski skupnosti

so edini čas v letu, ko se spustimo do tal,

the only time of year that we prostrate fully to the ground

is during the high holy days.

sveti dnevi.

To je znak popolne podrejenosti.

It's a sign of total submission.

Now in our community, when we get up off the ground,

V naši skupnosti, ko vstanemo,

we stand with our hands raised to the heavens,

stojimo z rokami, obrnjenimi proti nebesom

and we say, "I am strong, I am mighty, and I am worthy.

in pravimo: "Sem močan, sem mogočen in sem vreden.

Ne morem storiti vsega, ampak nekaj pa lahko."

I can't do everything, but I can do something."

In a world that conspires to make us believe that we are invisible

V svetu, ki se trudi, da verjamemo, da smo nevidni

and that we are impotent,

in nemočni,

religious communities and religious ritual

verske skupnosti in verski obredi

can remind us that for whatever amount of time we have here on this Earth,

nas lahko spomnijo, da kolikor časa imamo na Zemlji,

whatever gifts and blessings we were given,

katerekoli darove in blagoslove smo dobili,

kakšne vire imamo,

whatever resources we have,

we can and we must use them

lahko in moramo jih uporabiti,

to try to make the world a little bit more just

in poskušati narediti svet malo bolj pošten

and a little bit more loving.

in malo bolj ljubeč.

The fourth and final is interconnectedness.

Četrti in končni je povezanost.

A few years ago, there was a man walking on the beach in Alaska,

Pred nekaj leti je moški hodil po plaži na Aljaski,

ko je naletel na nogometno žogo,

when he came across a soccer ball

na kateri so bile narisane japonske pismenke.

that had some Japanese letters written on it.

He took a picture of it and posted it up on social media,

Slikal jo je in jo objavil na socialnih omrežjih,

in kontaktiral ga je japonski najstnik.

and a Japanese teenager contacted him.

He had lost everything in the tsunami that devastated his country,

V tsunamiju, ki je opustošil njegovo državo, je izgubil vse,

but he was able to retrieve that soccer ball

a nazaj je dobil to nogometno žogo,

after it had floated all the way across the Pacific.

potem ko je plavala čez cel Pacifik.

How small our world has become.

Kako majhen je postal naš svet.

Težko se spomnimo, kako zelo smo vsi povezani

It's so hard for us to remember how interconnected we all are

as human beings.

kot človeška bitja.

And yet, we know

A vseeno vemo,

that it is systems of oppression

da so sistemi zatiranja

that benefit the most from the lie of radical individualism.

tisti, ki največ pridobijo od laži radikalnega individualizma.

Let me tell you how this works.

Naj vam razložim, kako to deluje.

I'm not supposed to care

Ni treba, da mi je mar,

when black youth are harassed by police,

ko temnopoltega mladeniča nadleguje policija

because my white-looking Jewish kids

zato, ker mojih belih judovskih otrok

probably won't ever get pulled over for the crime of driving while black.

najbrž nikoli ne bodo ustavili zaradi zločina vožnje kot temnopolta oseba.

Pa ni tako, ker je to tudi moj problem.

Well, not so, because this is also my problem.

In veste kaj? Transfobija in islamofobija

And guess what? Transphobia and Islamophobia

and racism of all forms, those are also all of our problems.

in rasizem vseh oblik, to so vse naši problemi.

And so too is anti-Semitism all of our problems.

In tudi antisemitizem je naš problem.

Because Emma Lazarus was right.

Ker je imela Emma Lazarus prav.

(Aplavz)

(Applause)

Emma Lazarus was right when she said until all of us are free,

Emma Lazarus je imela prav, ko je rekla, da dokler nismo vsi svobodni,

we are none of us free.

ni nihče.

We are all in this together.

Vsi smo v tem skupaj.

And now somewhere at the intersection of these four trends,

In nekje na križišču teh štirih trendov

of wakefulness and hope and mightiness and interconnectedness,

budnosti in upanja in mogočnosti in povezanosti,

je tu hitro rastoče, večversko gibanje za pravico v državi,

there is a burgeoning, multifaith justice movement in this country

that is staking a claim on a countertrend,

ki si je vzelo delež v tem obratnem trendu,

saying that religion can and must be a force for good in the world.

ki pravi, da je religija lahko in mora biti dobra sila v tem svetu.

Naša srca trpijo zaradi propadle religije ekstremizma

Our hearts hurt from the failed religion of extremism,

in zaslužimo si več od spodletele religije rutinizma.

and we deserve more than the failed religion of routine-ism.

It is time for religious leaders and religious communities

Čas je, da verski vodje in verske skupnosti

prevzamejo pobudo v spiritualnem in kulturnem premiku,

to take the lead in the spiritual and cultural shift

that this country and the world so desperately needs --

ki ga ta država in svet nujno potrebujeta -

a shift toward love,

premik proti ljubezni,

toward justice, toward equality and toward dignity for all.

proti pravici, proti enakopravnosti in proti dostojanstvu za vse.

I believe that our children deserve no less than that.

Verjamem, da si naši otroci ne zaslužijo nič manj.

Thank you.

Hvala.

(Applause)

(Aplavz)