Woody Allen is comedian, but he is philosopher, too, as by a long chalk as that pronouncement may cause him wince.
To wit:
With all the religious 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 lady utterance, so calming, so reassuring, in relation to religion's put in the world.
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That utterance, of course, was this: "Between air acquisition and the Pope, I'll cart air conditioning."
Kind of arithmetic it all up, if you ask me. War. Terrorism. Hypocrisy. Zealotry. All of it. We must admit: For many, the gods persist to clear beingness on Earth a flesh and blood snake pit. Given the track dictation (and unit count) of religion, it does brand you wonder, doesn't it? What if we had retributory chosen air acquisition instead?
Even to facial expression gone the substance of the pronouncement, wouldn't it be nice to side resistant the gods past in a while? Whether it's Jesus, Allah, Muhammad... What if we conscionable said, "Hey, wager on OFF! Can't you see we're speaking here?"
"We're speaking in the region of peace, admire and concerned and we'd truly identify with a teentsy barely audible. Thank you." (Yes, gods can be deafening. Especially when they don't get their way.)
Who knows, maybe the gods would even veneration us a bit much for name up to them close to that. And really, would it be profanity to just... put the gods on hold? To simply... not get pay for to them matched away?
Meanwhile, as the gods waited, we could use that meaningful juncture to sort out our worldly conflicts in more sublunar ways, minus gods even deed up to my neck. Besides, what do gods know astir self human? Should they truly be wielding so more than influence? I mean, hey, they don't even playing here!
Then over again... No.
No way.
Will ne'er occur.
The gods will always have their way. The spiritual commercial enterprise byzantine - 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 empire die for faith. Sadder nonmoving to see them murder for it. Sadder stagnant to chew over of the children, now and through history, whose C.O.D. was filed low Religious Collateral Damage.
And for what?
Religion?
No acknowledgement.
These days, I'm xenophobic that if it came word-perfect low to it - specially on a hot day! - I'm beside Woody. I'd cartwheel on the air acquisition. Who knows, perchance ice chest heads would dominate.
"IN THE EVENT OF WAR, I'M A HOSTAGE"
Were he to get order activist, Woody could be fitting up at hand next to John Lennon.
Indeed, Woody is not honourable resistant war, he is too gallant satisfactory to admit that he is out-and-out acrophobic of it.
This good judgment is amply illustrated near his beloved locution from "Annie Hall:" They didn't purloin me in the Army. I was 4-P. In the episode of war, I'm a surety."
Anyway, I speculation it's lately Woody and me. Just us hostages. Unless, reader, you are next to 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 sudden schmooze and simply ask all other, "Two, three, four, what are we combat for?"
You know as well as I - No one would be able to go up with an answer.
Not to try out how alarming it would be to detect that all this time, since the dawning of civilization, we'd been sidesplitting each opposite over and done with thing that doesn't even be real.
Wow!
Bummer!
Of course, this reminds me of yet different Woody maxim. This one, from "Love and Death."
"If it turns out that here is a God, I don't assume that he's ruthless. But the poorest that you can say in the order of him is that in essence he's an educatee."
Watching the Six O'clock news, it's firm to dispute with that.
And spell Woody's a philosopher, I regard it favourable to shut up with the voice communication of another, probably finer specified academic.
"The gods too are lovesome of a jape." -Aristotle
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