And to my astonishment, when I began seriously studying other traditions, I began to realize that belief -- which we make such a fuss about today -- is only a very recent religious enthusiasm that surfaced only in the West, in about the 17th century.
驚いたことに 他の宗教の教えを 真剣に学び始めた結果 私は気づいたのです 今日騒がれている信念というものは 17世紀頃の西洋で起きた ごく最近の狂信的な現象だったのです