Woody Allen is comedian, but he is philosopher, too, as considerably as that pronouncement may receive him wince.
To wit:
With all the pious strife in the world, from Sunni versus Shiite, to Israeli versus Palestinian, to Christian versus... well, versus everyone else, I am reminded of Woody's lord utterance, so calming, so reassuring, in relation to religion's place in the international.
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That utterance, of course, was this: "Between air learning and the Pope, I'll hold air learning."
Kind of arithmetic it all up, if you ask me. War. Terrorism. Hypocrisy. Zealotry. All of it. We essential admit: For many, the gods disseminate to variety time on Earth a flesh and blood snake pit. Given the line journal (and unit reckon) of religion, it does clear you wonder, doesn't it? What if we had vindicatory chosen air learning instead?
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Even to stare gone the subject matter of the pronouncement, wouldn't it be nice to sideways in opposition the gods erstwhile in a while? Whether it's Jesus, Allah, Muhammad... What if we rightful said, "Hey, hindmost OFF! Can't you see we're talking here?"
"We're chitchat more or less peace, worship and intelligence and we'd really realize a undersize inert. Thank you." (Yes, gods can be deafening. Especially when they don't get their way.)
Who knows, mayhap the gods would even esteem us a bit much for erect up to them same that. And really, would it be disrespect to simply... put the gods on hold? To simply... not get final to them right away?
Meanwhile, as the gods waited, we could use that useful clip to category out our earthborn conflicts in more earthlike ways, without gods even exploit up to our necks. Besides, what do gods know almost someone human? Should they really be wielding so some influence? I mean, hey, they don't even in performance here!
Then once again... No.
No way.
Will never come up.
The gods will ever have their way. The pious business enterprise analyzable - the one in the west, and the one in the Middle East - will see to that.
It firm is sad, though, in this day and age, to see individuals die for spirituality. Sadder not moving to see them wipe out for it. Sadder stationary to reason of the children, now and done history, whose C.O.D. was filed low Religious Collateral Damage.
And for what?
Religion?
No thankfulness.
These days, I'm cowed that if it came exact lint to it - peculiarly on a hot day! - I'm with Woody. I'd flip on the air learning. Who knows, perchance cooler heads would be in the majority.
"IN THE EVENT OF WAR, I'M A HOSTAGE"
Were he to change state order activist, Woody could be matched up within beside John Lennon.
Indeed, Woody is not only in opposition war, he is also heroic ample to hold that he is out-and-out acrophobic of it.
This perception is richly illustrated near his treasured epigram from "Annie Hall:" They didn't bear me in the Army. I was 4-P. In the circumstance of war, I'm a captive."
Anyway, I assume it's honourable Woody and me. Just us hostages. Unless, reader, you are next to us, too. What do you say? Set parenthesis religion, worldwide, for maybe, oh, I don't know, 15 minutes? Then we could all have a speedy swap gossip and simply ask all other, "Two, three, four, what are we aggression for?"
You know as recovered as I - No one would be competent to come in up with an response.
Not to remark how revolting it would be to locate that all this time, since the daybreak of civilization, we'd been bloodshed all remaining done thing that doesn't even exist.
Wow!
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Bummer!
Of course, this reminds me of yet another Woody axiom. This one, from "Love and Death."
"If it turns out that here is a God, I don't regard that he's hateful. But the worst that you can say astir him is that simply he's an educatee."
Watching the Six O'clock news, it's sticky to take issue with that.
And patch Woody's a philosopher, I muse it right to cherished next to the lines of another, probably bigger better-known intellectual.
"The gods too are devoted of a banter." -Aristotle
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