Woody Allen is comedian, but he is philosopher, too, as more as that say-so may produce him facial expression.
To wit:
With all the ceremonial strife in the world, from Sunni versus Shiite, to Israeli versus Palestinian, to Christian versus... well, versus one and all else, I am reminded of Woody's aristocrat utterance, so calming, so reassuring, about religion's lodge in the global.
Certain copysThat utterance, of course, was this: "Between air conditioning and the Pope, I'll issue air learning."
Kind of arithmetic it all up, if you ask me. War. Terrorism. Hypocrisy. Zealotry. All of it. We must admit: For many, the gods keep alive to product being on Earth a conscious the pits. Given the track diary (and physical structure compute) of religion, it does receive you wonder, doesn't it? What if we had of late selected air conditioning instead?
Even to look gone the message of the pronouncement, wouldn't it be pleasant to edge against the gods once in a while? Whether it's Jesus, Allah, Muhammad... What if we merely said, "Hey, aft OFF! Can't you see we're talking here?"
"We're speaking give or take a few peace, emotion and understanding and we'd truly empathize a small subdued. Thank you." (Yes, gods can be shattering. Especially when they don't get their way.)
Who knows, peradventure the gods would even deference us a bit more for standing up to them resembling that. And really, would it be blasphemy to just... put the gods on hold? To simply... not get posterior to them precise away?
Meanwhile, as the gods waited, we could use that costly event to kind out our sublunary conflicts in much mundane ways, short gods even effort implicated. Besides, what do gods cognize more or less human being human? Should they really be wielding so by a long chalk influence? I mean, hey, they don't even live here!
Then once more... No.
No way.
Will never surface.
The gods will e'er have their way. The holy commercial enterprise labyrinthian - the one in the west, and the one in the Middle East - will see to that.
It in no doubt is sad, though, in this day and age, to see relatives die for faith. Sadder stationary to see them destroy for it. Sadder standing to focus of the children, now and done history, whose C.O.D. was filed under Religious Collateral Damage.
And for what?
Religion?
No acknowledgement.
These days, I'm aghast that if it came within your rights fuzz to it - especially on a hot day! - I'm next to Woody. I'd disrespectful on the air acquisition. Who knows, perhaps refrigerator heads would reign.
"IN THE EVENT OF WAR, I'M A HOSTAGE"
Were he to turn peace activist, Woody could be appropriate up there near John Lennon.
Indeed, Woody is not conscionable resistant war, he is also lionhearted plenty to hold that he is complete nervous of it.
This insight is richly illustrated next to his prized joke from "Annie Hall:" They didn't give somebody a lift me in the Army. I was 4-P. In the occurrence of war, I'm a surety."
Anyway, I imagine it's retributory Woody and me. Just us hostages. Unless, reader, you are near us, too. What do you say? Set deviation religion, worldwide, for maybe, oh, I don't know, cardinal minutes? Then we could all have a speedy swap gossip and simply ask all other, "Two, three, four, what are we operational for?"
You cognize as economically as I - No one would be competent to travel up beside an response.
Not to mention how detestable it would be to notice that all this time, since the morning of civilization, we'd been slaughter all other done something that doesn't even be present.
Wow!
Bummer!
Of course, this reminds me of yet another Woody maxim. This one, from "Love and Death."
Any posts"If it turns out that location is a God, I don't suggest that he's mephistophelean. But the worst that you can say more or less him is that au fond he's an nonachiever."
Watching the Six O'clock news, it's fractious to take issue beside that.
And spell Woody's a philosopher, I meditate it appropriate to adjacent near the words of another, mayhap a cut above agreed scholar.
"The gods too are lovesome of a tease." -Aristotle