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在将于本周二由圣马丁出版社出版的《去，照样行：我们如何修复破碎的国家》一书中，民主党籍肯塔基州州长安迪·贝希尔写道，他认为被一些政客所裹挟的信仰语言，可被用于弥合美国的党派分歧——以及如何将好撒玛利亚人的寓言解读为呼吁人们彼此施以善意而非苛责的教诲。
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和几乎所有在八九十年代长大的男性一样，我看过《夺宝奇兵》系列电影。这些电影大多是有趣的冒险故事，但偶尔也能从中汲取人生 Lessons。如今回首往事，我想起第三部《夺宝奇兵：最后的十字军》里的一个经典场景，在我看来，它真正诠释了信仰的意义。在影片的关键节点，琼斯博士得到一次机会，从众多圣杯杯中选出耶稣在最后的晚餐上使用过的圣餐杯。摆在琼斯面前的是无数极尽华丽的圣杯——镶满宝石的金杯，看似完全配得上万王之王。另一个角色正是基于此做出选择——她挑了最奢华、最精美的那只，而她的同伴却为此付出了代价。但琼斯却选中了一只截然不同的杯子作为圣杯，他觉得这应该是一位木匠会使用的杯子——朴素、谦卑、简洁。负责守护圣杯的骑士对他说道：“你选对了。”
我们都知道唐纳德·特朗普在这种情况下会选哪只圣杯——越花哨、越能彰显自我越好。如今，他把椭圆形办公室变成了一座镀金且荒诞的奢华牢笼，还为自己的宴会厅拆除了白宫历史悠久的东翼。总统的成年子女兜售镀金手机，而他甘愿收受腐败礼物，只为能坐在被称为“空中宫殿”的豪华波音747上。与此同时，他通过关税和大规模、拙劣的医保削减，伤害着挣扎中的中产阶级、穷人和弱势群体。他甚至诉诸法律手段要终止食品援助计划，因为他认为让美国人挨饿是其政治斗争的“绝佳筹码”。
难以想象的是，我们整个国家，尤其是民主党，几乎将信仰和基本道德拱手让给了一位现代法利赛人——他谴责与自己不同的人，且声称自己最喜爱的经文（若他还能记得任何经文的话）是“以眼还眼”。他就是这样看待世界的：充满报复心和愤怒。但我并非如此。
作为浸信会平信徒牧师的孙子和曾孙，我从小就听过好撒玛利亚人的寓言。这是一个绝妙的故事，即便你不信教，也能领会其中的智慧。故事里，一名男子从耶路撒冷前往耶利哥途中遭遇伏击，被剥光衣物、殴打、抢劫，奄奄一息地躺在路边。许多路人看到这名赤裸、流血的可怜人躺在尘土中，却无动于衷，反而绕道而行。唯有一名撒玛利亚人停下脚步，施以救命援手。他甚至做得更多，将男子背到附近的城镇，并垫付了医药费。耶稣问道，谁才是这名男子真正的邻居？当然是帮助他的人。
许多布道都错误地在此处止步，这不应该。因为讲完这个故事后，耶稣并未停顿，也没有转向其他话题。他直视众人说道：“你们去，照样也照样行。”好撒玛利亚人的寓言不只是一个故事——它是一项指令。耶稣命令我们走出去，彼此善待，而非苛责，善待整个世界。这意味着，如果你自称是基督徒，善待你的同胞就是你的职责，尤其是在这并非易事之时。
我好奇唐纳德·特朗普是否听过好撒玛利亚人的故事。如果他听过，那他没能领会其核心要义。“你们去，照样也照样行”意味着看见彼此身上的人性。意味着在他人需要时伸出援手，即便他们与你截然不同。这绝不意味着惩罚那些依靠食品援助计划喂养婴儿、依靠医保支付医疗费用的人。“你们去，照样也照样行”意味着将所有人都视为上帝的子民——不因党派、种族、族裔甚至性取向分裂国家。“你们去，照样也照样行”意味着欢迎来到这个曾接纳我们祖先的国家，而非违抗法院命令，驱逐那些与你外貌不同的人。最简单来说，“你们去，照样也照样行”意味着彼此善待，而非动用美国政府的权力做出残忍之事。
十余年来，特朗普一直告诉我们他要让美国再次伟大。我认为他根本不懂伟大的真谛。在他看来，伟大关乎权力，关乎显得强大或强硬。他忽略了一个真相：耶稣比钉死他的钉子更坚韧；他曾被诱惑成为权力之君，却选择成为和平之君；即便被钉十字架、被枪刺，耶稣也没有惩罚他的敌人，而是宽恕了他们。
美国的伟大并非体现在政治夸夸其谈或军事阅兵上，而是体现在她的人民践行耶稣所说的“你们去，照样也照样行”之时。这才是真正的爱国主义：即便我的邻居与我截然不同，即便他们属于“错误”的群体，即便唐纳德·特朗普之流告诉我应该憎恨他们，我依然关心他们。美国的最佳状态，是我们致力于包容的爱、耐心而非评判、将多样性视为力量之源、将每一个人都视作应得尊严与尊重的上帝之子。这些原则既非自由主义也非保守主义，当然也不是被一些人用作贬义词的“觉醒”。这些原则和价值观源自我们最美好的自我，源自我们内心深处的善意。
在我担任肯塔基州州长期间，我曾依托这些价值观树立社区精神和彼此关爱。爱、耐心、多样性和尊重帮助我团结了多年来被那些为谋取金钱或选票而煽动分裂的人所撕裂的民众。这些价值观和我的信仰也激励我找到新的解决问题的方法，而非让群体彼此对立，而是激发我们内心最美好的一面。我相信我们可以将这种从肯塔基州家乡摸索出的方法推广到其他社区——乃至整个国家。我相信我们所有人，从联邦、州和地方政府，到我们每一个个体，都可以效仿好撒玛利亚人，去，照样行。
在这本书中，我将分享我的信仰如何塑造我的世界观，以及为何在这个分裂的时代我依然抱有希望。我会谈到我的信仰如何帮助我在自然灾害后安抚伤痛中的人们。如何给予我力量，对抗并击败一位先于特朗普行事的分裂主义州长。如何在经历惨痛损失后为我带来内心的平静。甚至谈及在一名密友在大规模枪击事件中丧生后，我的信仰受到考验却并未动摇。
这本书也应该是向所有信仰不同宗教或仅拥有坚定价值观的人们发出的邀请——那些相信我们应该少一些评判，多一些彼此支持的人。献给所有希望让美国重拾善意的人。
哦，还有，好撒玛利亚人是真实存在的。我在肯塔基州的怀特斯堡见过她。
——节选自《去，照样行》，安迪·贝希尔著。版权所有©2026作者，经圣马丁出版集团许可重印。
Book excerpt: “Go and Do Likewise” by Andy Beshear
2026-09-18T16:27:00-0400 / CBS News
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In “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country” (to be published Tuesday by St. Martin’s Press), Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, writes about how the language of faith, which he believes has been co-opted by some politicians, can be used to bridge the nation’s partisan divide – and how the parable of the Good Samaritan can be viewed as an instruction to show kindness, not cruelty, to one another.
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Like almost any guy who came of age in the ’80s and ’90s, I watched the Indiana Jones movies. The movies are mostly fun adventure stories, but every once in a while, you can find a life lesson. Looking back at it now, I think of a classic scene in the third movie, “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” that to me offers a true understanding of the meaning of faith. At a crucial moment in the film, Dr. Jones is given one chance to select from a large assortment of goblets to find the Holy Grail, the sacred cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper. Before Jones are a multitude of chalices of incredible splendor—bejeweled, golden cups that seemingly would befit the King of Kings. Another character makes her selection on that basis—she chooses the richest and most splendid and her companion pays the price. But Jones homes in on a very different cup to be the Grail, one that he feels would be used by a carpenter—plain, humble, and simple. The knight who serves as the guardian of the Grail famously tells him, “You have chosen wisely.”
We all know what goblet Donald Trump would have chosen in that circumstance—the gaudier and more self-aggrandizing, the better. Today, he’s turned the Oval Office into a gilded and grotesque cage of excess and bulldozed the historic East Wing of the White House for his ballroom. The president’s adult children hawk gold cell phones, and he is willing to take a corrupt gift so he can sit in a luxury 747 that is a “palace in the sky.” All while he hurts the struggling middle class, as well as the poor and vulnerable, with his tariffs and big, ugly healthcare cuts. He even goes to court to stop SNAP benefits because he believes that starving Americans is “good leverage” for his political fights.
It is unthinkable that we as a country and the Democratic Party in particular have all but ceded faith and basic morality to a modern-day Pharisee, who condemns those who are different and who says his favorite verse of Scripture (when he can remember any at all) is “an eye for an eye.” That’s how he sees the world. Vengeful and angry. But that’s not how I see it.
As the grandson and great-grandson of Baptist lay ministers, I was taught the parable of the Good Samaritan. It’s a wonderful story, and you don’t need to be a religious person to appreciate its wisdom. In the story, a man walking from Jerusalem to Jericho is ambushed, stripped, beaten, robbed, and left half-dead on the side of the road. A number of people pass by and see this poor man lying in the dirt, naked and bleeding, but they do nothing to help him. Instead, they cross over to the other side of the road and keep walking. But one person, a Samaritan, stops and renders lifesaving aid. He even goes the extra mile and carries the man on his back to a nearby town and pays for his care. Who, Jesus asked, is the true neighbor to this man? The one who helped him, of course.
Many sermons mistakenly stop here. They shouldn’t. Because after telling this story, Jesus doesn’t pause or move on to another topic. He looks directly at the crowd and says, “Now go and do likewise.” The parable of the Good Samaritan isn’t just a story—it’s an instruction. It is Jesus’s command to go out and show kindness, not cruelty, to one another and to the world. It means that if you claim to be a Christian, it’s your job to be good to your fellow human being, especially when it’s hard.
I wonder if Donald Trump has ever heard the story of the Good Samaritan. If he has, he failed to learn its central lesson. “Now go and do likewise” means seeing the humanity in one another. It means giving people a hand up when they need it, even if they are different from you. It does not mean punishing people who depend on SNAP benefits to feed their babies or Medicaid to cover the cost of healthcare. “Now go and do likewise” means treating all people as people of God—not dividing the country by party, race, ethnicity, or even sexual orientation. “Now go and do likewise” means welcoming people to a country that once welcomed our own ancestors, not defying court orders and expelling people who do not look the same as you. At its simplest level, “now go and do likewise” means treating one another with kindness, not wielding the power of the United States government to do cruel things.
For more than a decade, Trump has told us he is going to make America great again. I don’t think he understands what greatness looks like. To him, it is about power, about appearing strong or tough. He misses the truth that Jesus was tougher than the nails that pinned Him to the cross; that He was tempted to become the Prince of Power but chose to be the Prince of Peace; that even after being crucified and speared, Jesus did not smite his enemies. He forgave them.
America shows her greatness not through political bluster or military parades but when her people live out the words of Jesus when He said, “Now go and do likewise.” This is real patriotism: caring for my neighbor even when they are very different from me, even when they are a member of the “wrong” group, even when people like Donald Trump tell me I should hate them. America is at her best when we commit ourselves to love that is inclusive, to being patient, not judgmental, to embracing our diversity as a source of strength, to seeing every human being as a child of God who deserves dignity and respect. These principles are neither liberal nor conservative, and they certainly aren’t woke—a word that has become a pejorative to some people. These are the principles and values that flow out of our best selves and the good that dwells in all of us.
During my time serving the Commonwealth of Kentucky as Governor, I have tapped into those values to instill a sense of community spirit and a love for one another. Love, patience, diversity, and respect have helped me unite a population that for many years was torn apart by those who sowed division to gain money or votes. These values and my faith have also inspired me to find new approaches to problems that aren’t based on pitting one group against another but on drawing out the best within us. I believe we can translate this approach from my home in Kentucky to other communities—and to our nation as a whole. I believe that all of us, from federal, state, and local governments to each one of us individually, can heed the example of the Good Samaritan, to go and do likewise.
In this book, I will share how my faith shapes how I see the world and why I still have hope in these divisive times. I will talk about how my faith has helped me console the hurting after natural disasters. How it has given me strength to stand up to and defeat a divisive Governor who was Trump before Trump. How it has brought me a level of peace after tragic losses. And even how it was tested but not broken after a mass shooting took the life of a close friend.
This book should also be an invitation to people of all faiths or simply strong values who believe we should spend less time judging and more time supporting each other. For anyone who wants to Make America Kind Again.
Oh, and the Good Samaritan is real. I met her in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
From “Go and Do Likewise” by Andy Beshear. Copyright © 2026 by the author, and reprinted with permission of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.