英语演讲稿-If There Were No After Life

whether there’s afterlife, the answer has never been the same. the atheists deny after life, believing that our life is no more than from the cradle to the grave. they may care about their illustrious names after death; they may feel attached to the affection of their offspring, but they never lay their hopes on their afterlife. they may also say that good will be rewarded with good, and evil with evil, but they don’t really believe any retribution in their after life.
　　however, in the religious world or among the superstitious people, the belief in afterlife is very popular. they do not only believe in afterlife, but thousands of reincarnations as well. in the mysterious world, there are the paradise and the hell, the celestial beings and the gods, the buddha and the bodhisattvas.
　　maybe they really believed it, or maybe they just wanted to make use of people’s veneration, the ancient emperors always declared that they were the real dragons, the sons of god, while the royal ministers claimed to be the reincarnations of various constellations. but can the stars reincarnate?
　　many people burn incense and kowtow, do good deeds and strive for virtues, not just for the present, but mainly to let god see their sincerity so as to be reborn into a better afterlife, or to achieve the highest enlightenment after several lives of practice. they do believe in afterlife. but i can’t help asking: suppose there were no afterlife, would you still do good deeds and strive for virtues? and if god does not see what you are doing, would you still be so upright and selfless? if you work, not for serving the public and liberating the others, but just for a better afterlife of your own, isn’t it a little too selfish? comparing with this kind of believers, those who don’t believe in afterlife, but still keep doing good deeds, are the most sincere and honest philanthropists, because they do them not for themselves but for other.
　　you may wonder if i believe in afterlife. my answer is: i know nothing about my previous life, so i dare not make improper comments on afterlife. but i do hope there’s afterlife! because our present life is so short that so many things slip away before our proper understanding. i have so many dreams, so many wishes, so many ambitions, as well as so many regrets and concerns. if there were no afterlife, all of them will remain unrealized!
　　i’m not contented with the present commonplace life, i’m very much attached to the affections that should have been mine but have been washed away by the hurrying time, and i yearn for the perfection and maturity if i could start all over again. so believe it or not, i’d rather there were afterlife.

是否有来世,答案从来都不是相同的。无神论者,不相信我们的生活是不超过从摇篮到坟墓。死后他们会关心他们的名字,他们可能感到在子女的感情,但他们从来没有把希望寄托在来世。他们也可能说,好将奖励好,与邪恶和邪恶,但他们并不真正相信任何报复后的生活。
然而,在宗教领域、或在一些迷信的人群,来世之说很受欢迎。他们不仅相信来世,但成千上万的转世活佛。在那未知而飘渺的世界,有天堂和地狱,神仙和神,佛陀和菩萨。
也许真的相信,也许他们只是想利用人们的敬畏心里,古代的帝王们总是宣称自己是真龙天子,神的儿子,而皇家部长声称是各种星座的转世活佛。星星能转世吗?
许多人烧香、磕头,行善、修德,并不都是为了眼前,而是为了让上天看见自己的真诚,以便下辈子变成一个更好的来世,或实现几世之后的练习。这些人自然是相信来世的。但我不禁要问:如果没有来世,你还会做好事,争取美德?如果上帝不看到你在做什么,你们是否也会公正无私呢?如果你工作,而不是为了服务公众和解放,但只是为了自己更好的来世,是不是有点太自私了?与这种信徒,那些不相信来世,但仍继续做好事,是最真诚的和诚实的慈善家,因为他们做的不是为了自己,而是为了其他。
你可能想知道如果我相信来世。我的回答是:我不知道我以前的生活,所以我不敢评论不当来世。但是我真的希望有来世!因为这辈子时间太短,所以很多东西溜走之前我们的正确理解。我有很多梦想,太多的愿望,太多的野心,以及那么多遗憾和担忧。如果没有来世,他们仍未实现!
我不满足于现在的平凡的生活,我非常依恋的感情应该是我但一直碌碌无为,冲走了我渴望完美和成熟如果我能从头再来。所以不管你信不信,我宁愿有来世。