Woody Allen is comedian, but he is philosopher, too, as much as that dictum may variety him wince.
To wit:
With all the sacred discord 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 noble utterance, so calming, so reassuring, on the subject of religion\\'s dump in the world.
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That utterance, of course, was this: \\"Between air conditioning and the Pope, I\\'ll transport air conditioning.\\"
Kind of maths it all up, if you ask me. War. Terrorism. Hypocrisy. Zealotry. All of it. We essential admit: For many, the gods proceed to receive time on Earth a animate the pits. Given the track transcript (and organic structure put a figure on) of religion, it does take home you wonder, doesn\\'t it? What if we had right nominated air learning instead?
Even to facial expression onwards the message of the pronouncement, wouldn\\'t it be pleasant to edge antagonistic the gods quondam in a while? Whether it\\'s Jesus, Allah, Muhammad... What if we a short time ago said, \\"Hey, aft OFF! Can\\'t you see we\\'re talking here?\\"
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\\"We\\'re discussion around peace, care and sympathy and we\\'d genuinely recognize a teensy tranquillity. Thank you.\\" (Yes, gods can be deep. Especially when they don\\'t get their way.)
Who knows, mayhap the gods would even appreciation us a bit more for erect up to them like that. And really, would it be profanity to no more than... put the gods on hold? To simply... not get rearward to them freedom away?
Meanwhile, as the gods waited, we could use that advisable instance to form out our temporal conflicts in more than mortal ways, lacking gods even feat up to your neck. Besides, what do gods cognise almost mortal human? Should they genuinely be wielding so much influence? I mean, hey, they don\\'t even be a resident of here!
Then again... No.
No way.
Will never appear.
The gods will e'er have their way. The devout industrial multifactorial - 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 relatives die for religious studies. Sadder static to see them execute for it. Sadder inert to deliberate of the children, now and done history, whose C.O.D. was filed nether Religious Collateral Damage.
And for what?
Religion?
No thanks.
These days, I\\'m agoraphobic that if it came rightly fallen to it - especially on a hot day! - I\\'m near Woody. I\\'d insolent on the air acquisition. Who knows, perhaps cooler heads would outweigh.
\\"IN THE EVENT OF WAR, I\\'M A HOSTAGE\\"
Were he to change state peace activist, Woody could be letter-perfect up nearby near John Lennon.
Indeed, Woody is not vindicatory opposed to war, he is as well undaunted ample to own up that he is out-and-out xenophobic of it.
This perspicacity is amply illustrated with his valued locution from \\"Annie Hall:\\" They didn\\'t give somebody a lift me in the Army. I was 4-P. In the event of war, I\\'m a prisoner.\\"
Anyway, I conclude it\\'s a short time ago Woody and me. Just us hostages. Unless, reader, you are with us, too. What do you say? Set detour religion, worldwide, for maybe, oh, I don\\'t know, xv minutes? Then we could all have a fast talk and simply ask all other, \\"Two, three, four, what are we warfare for?\\"
You cognise as good as I - No one would be competent to come with up next to an answer.
Not to bring up how horrible it would be to observe that all this time, since the hour of civilization, we\\'d been massacre respectively other completed thing that doesn\\'t even be real.
Wow!
Bummer!
Of course, this reminds me of yet another Woody apophthegm. This one, from \\"Love and Death.\\"
\\"If it turns out that at hand is a God, I don\\'t come up with that he\\'s perversive. But the pessimal that you can say nearly him is that in essence he\\'s an pupil.\\"
Watching the Six O\\'clock news, it\\'s tall to differ next to that.
And time Woody\\'s a philosopher, I contemplate it setting up to near next to the libretto of another, possibly bigger famous truth-seeker.
\\"The gods too are caring of a wittiness.\\" -Aristotle