Name: TED】ジュリア・スウィーニー神を手放すこと (神を手放すこと｜ジュリア・スウィーニー) (【TED】Julia Sweeney: Letting go of God (Letting go of God | Julia Sweeney))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:25:23.000Z
Duration: 17 min 18 s

On September 10, the morning of my seventh birthday,

翻訳: Takako Sato 校正: Marika Taniguchi

過去進行形

I came downstairs to the kitchen, where my mother was washing the dishes

9月10日 私が７才になった誕生日の朝

and my father was reading the paper or something,

and I sort of presented myself to them in the doorway, and they said,

"Hey, happy birthday!" And I said, "I'm seven."

私の姿を見て 両親は“お誕生日おめでとう”

"Well, you know what that means, don't you?"

And I said, "Yeah, that I'm going to have a party

“７才になる意味はわかってるね？”

“ケーキを食べたりプレゼントを貰うってこと？”

“そうとも言えるけど もっと大事なのは

７才は分別年齢に達したってことさ

being seven means that you've reached the age of reason,

神と人に対して罪を犯す可能性があるんだよ”

and you're now capable of committing any and all sins against God and man."

“分別年齢”って表現はその前から聞いたことはあった

Now, I had heard this phrase, "age of reason," before.

２年生のクラスで シスターが言ってたの

Sister Mary Kevin had been bandying it about

初めての聖餐や懺悔の準備に関わる―

the phrase seemed all caught up in the excitement of preparations

白いドレスを着てベールをつけることだって思ってた

for our first communion and our first confession,

“分別年齢”という表現は 深く考えたことがなかったから

and everybody knew that was really all about the white dress

“もう一度おしえて” と言ったの

父が言うには “カトリック教会ではね

And anyway, I hadn't really paid all that much attention

小さな子どもは善悪の区別が出来ないと神はわかってるけど

７才だと分別できるようになるんだ

So, I said, "Yeah, yeah, age of reason. What does that mean again?"

もう大きくなったから これからは

And my dad said, "Well, we believe, in the Catholic Church,

神様がお前の永久記録をつけ始めるのさ”

that God knows that little kids don't know the difference between right and wrong,

but when you're seven, you're old enough to know better.

“そうなんだ　でも待って　今日までずっと良い子にしてたのに

So, you've grown up and reached the age of reason,

神様は気づいてくれなかったの？”

and now God will start keeping notes on you,

“いや 私は気づいてたよ” と母

今まで知らなかったのかしら？

良い子にしてた意味がないじゃない

こんなに大事な情報を 意味がなくなる日まで

all that time I was so good, God didn't notice it?"

“じゃあ サンタさんは 良い子か

悪い子かわかってるんでしょう？” と私

And I thought, "How could I not have known this before?

How could it not have sunk in when they'd been telling me?

クリスマスの間だけだと思うよ”

All that being good and no real credit for it.

母は “お父さん　教えちゃいましょうよ

And worst of all, how could I not have realized

この子は７才よ　サンタなんていないの”

until the very day that it was basically useless to me?"

実はね これにはあまり驚きはしなかった

So I said, "Well, Mom and Dad, what about Santa Claus?

I mean, Santa Claus knows if you're naughty or nice, right?"

普通の家ではクリスマスイブの夜に

サンタがプレゼントを届けて　翌朝一番に

I think that's technically just between Thanksgiving and Christmas."

And my mother said, "Oh, Bob, stop it. Let's just tell her. I mean, she's seven.

うちは両親が事前にサンタと相談してたから

来る時間は 大ミサが行われるクリスマスの朝９時

Now, this was actually not that upsetting to me.

でも良い子にしていないと来てくれない

My parents had this whole elaborate story about Santa Claus:

how they had talked to Santa Claus himself and agreed

両親がプレゼントを用意してるのは明らかだった

that instead of Santa delivering our presents

父の包装の仕方は独特だったし

like he did for every other family who got to open their surprises

それに サンタが皆の家を回って

わざわざ うちまで戻ってくるなんて変よね

たくさんある証拠から導ける確かな結論は１つしかない

Santa would come to our house while we were at nine o'clock high mass

on Christmas morning, but only if all of us kids did not make a fuss.

両親は陽気なサンタに拒否された恥ずかしさから

It was pretty obvious that it was really our parents giving us the presents.

私たちを守ろうと頑張っていた

I mean, my dad had a very distinctive wrapping style,

でもサンタだって良い子にしかプレゼントをくれない

and my mother's handwriting was so close to Santa's.

だから サンタが架空だってことは ある意味 安心できたの

あまりショックを受けず台所を後にしたんだけど

Plus, why would Santa save time by having to loop back

分別年齢を知らなかったことは

to our house after he'd gone to everybody else's?

There was only one obvious conclusion to reach from this mountain of evidence:

私には役に立たないけど この情報が使える―

our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit,

and my poor parents were trying to protect us from the embarrassment,

this humiliation of rejection by Santa, who was jolly --

but let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

理解できて ７才未満であること

So to find out that there was no Santa Claus at all

弟は近所にある学校の遊び場で

I left the kitchen not really in shock about Santa,

１人でボール蹴りして遊んでいた弟に

about how I could have missed this whole age of reason thing.

It was too late for me, but maybe I could help someone else,

“分別年齢は７才からだって 今わかったの

７才になると罪を犯す可能性が出ちゃうのよ”

”だから何？”　“７才まであと１年あるじゃない

they had to be old enough to be able to understand

それまで何をしても神様は気づかないのよ”

the whole concept of the age of reason, and not yet seven.

“それで？” と弟　“あんたバカね！”

The answer was clear: my brother Bill. He was six.

走って帰ろうと思ったけど 頭に来たから

階段を上った所で 思わせぶりに振り返り

about a block away from our house at this public school playground.

“そういえばね サンタなんていないのよ”

It was a Saturday, and he was all by himself,

just kicking a ball against the side of a wall.

その当時は知らなかったんだけど

9月10日に７才になったわけじゃなかった

I just realized that the age of reason starts when you turn seven,

13歳の誕生日に お泊まり会を計画したの

and then you're capable of committing any and all sins

でも その数週間前に 母に呼ばれて言われたの

“話さなくちゃいけないことがあるの

誕生日は9月10日ではなく10月10日なの”　“えっ？”

You have a whole year to do anything you want to and God won't notice it."

“幼稚園に入るには9月15日以前に生まれた子どもって言うもんだから”

“だから誕生日は9月10日だって言ったのよ

And I turned to run. I was so angry with him.

あなたが いろんなところで言いふらしたら困るから

誕生日は9月10日だって言い始めたのよ

でもね あなたは準備万端だったのよ”

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