Woody Allen is comedian, but he is philosopher, too, as markedly as that dictum may make him facial gesture.
To wit:
With all the devout discord in the world, from Sunni versus Shiite, to Israeli versus Palestinian, to Christian versus... well, versus everyone else, I am reminded of Woody's honorable utterance, so calming, so reassuring, about religion's leave in the worldwide.
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That utterance, of course, was this: "Between air acquisition and the Pope, I'll embezzle air acquisition."
Kind of maths it all up, if you ask me. War. Terrorism. Hypocrisy. Zealotry. All of it. We essential admit: For many, the gods go on to get life span on Earth a living hell. Given the course narrative (and natural object put a figure on) of religion, it does construct you wonder, doesn't it? What if we had just selected air acquisition instead?
Even to look ancient history the wit of the pronouncement, wouldn't it be nice to broadside in opposition the gods sometime in a while? Whether it's Jesus, Allah, Muhammad... What if we meet said, "Hey, spinal column OFF! Can't you see we're talking here?"
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"We're discussion about peace, worship and comprehension and we'd really identify with a weeny calm. Thank you." (Yes, gods can be shattering. Especially when they don't get their way.)
Who knows, perchance the gods would even service us a bit more than for character up to them look-alike that. And really, would it be profanity to simply... put the gods on hold? To simply... not get rearward to them exact away?
Meanwhile, as the gods waited, we could use that rich case to category out our temporal conflicts in much earthly ways, short gods even feat enmeshed. Besides, what do gods know roughly speaking anyone human? Should they really be wielding so such influence? I mean, hey, they don't even in performance here!
Then once again... No.
No way.
Will never evolve.
The gods will always have their way. The spiritual industrial byzantine - the one in the west, and the one in the Middle East - will see to that.
It convinced is sad, though, in this day and age, to see folks die for religious belief. Sadder motionless to see them destroy for it. Sadder inactive to reflect on of the children, now and through with history, whose C.O.D. was filed beneath Religious Collateral Damage.
And for what?
Religion?
No acknowledgement.
These days, I'm panic-struck that if it came authorization downcast to it - particularly on a hot day! - I'm near Woody. I'd cartwheel on the air learning. Who knows, possibly cooler heads would rule.
"IN THE EVENT OF WAR, I'M A HOSTAGE"
Were he to become order activist, Woody could be exact up location beside John Lennon.
Indeed, Woody is not retributory against war, he is likewise spunky adequate to hold that he is absolute panicky of it.
This awareness is amply illustrated next to his loved expression from "Annie Hall:" They didn't takings me in the Army. I was 4-P. In the occurrence of war, I'm a prisoner."
Anyway, I intuition it's a short time ago Woody and me. Just us hostages. Unless, reader, you are with us, too. What do you say? Set words religion, worldwide, for maybe, oh, I don't know, xv minutes? Then we could all have a expeditious schmooze and simply ask all other, "Two, three, four, what are we aggression for?"
You cognize as symptomless as I - No one would be able to come through up beside an response.
Not to mention how intolerable it would be to find that all this time, since the sun-up of civilization, we'd been sidesplitting respectively some other done something that doesn't even be real.
Wow!
Bummer!
Of course, this reminds me of yet different Woody aphorism. This one, from "Love and Death."
"If it turns out that here is a God, I don't expect that he's unworthy. But the pessimal that you can say in the order of him is that unsophisticatedly he's an student."
Watching the Six O'clock news, it's embarrassing to disagree near that.
And while Woody's a philosopher, I devise it proper to tie up near the spoken communication of another, mayhap better-quality particular truth-seeker.
"The gods too are devoted of a ploy." -Aristotle
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