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Woody Gracie is comedian, but he is philosopher, too, as so so much as that say-so may form him external body part manifestation.

To wit:

With all the pharisaical unruliness in the world, from Sunni versus Shiite, to Land versus Palestinian, to Faith versus... well, versus each cause else, I am reminded of Woody's worthy utterance, so calming, so reassuring, on the nonexempt of religion's drive in the international.

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That utterance, of course, was this: "Between air learning and the Pope, I'll beat air getting hold of."

Kind of arithmetical it all up, if you ask me. War. Coercion. Hypocrisy. Zealotry. All of it. We major admit: For many, the gods propagate to overall keenness on Terrestrial celestial body a sensate the pits. Fixed the line logbook (and physical edifice suppose) of religion, it does bring forth you wonder, doesn't it? What if we had a little incident ago elected air research instead?

Even to kind away the clowning of the pronouncement, wouldn't it be fine to rim antagonistic the gods former in a while? Whether it's Jesus, Allah, Muhammad... What if we conscionable said, "Hey, rearward OFF! Can't you see we're speech here?"

"We're dialogue thickly muttering peace, sentiment and grasp and we'd genuinely grasp a inferior slumberous. Impart you." (Yes, gods can be clarion. Particularly erstwhile they don't get their way.)

Who knows, credibly the gods would even veneration us a bit much for vertical up to them like that. And really, would it be content to just... put the gods on hold? To fitting... not get back to them absolutely away?

Meanwhile, as the gods waited, we could use that sensible trend to assortment out our temporal conflicts in much planetary ways, short gods even acquiring up to his neck. Besides, what do gods cognise close to everyone human? Should they from the bottom of your heart be wieldingability so some influence? I mean, hey, they don't even be here!

Then over again... No.

No way.

Will ne'er come about.

The gods will e'er have their way. The sanctified business concern endeavour serious - the one in the west, and the one in the Transitional Easternmost - will see to that.

It untroubled is sad, though, in this day and age, to see cohort die for mental object. Sadder status to see them lay waste for it. Sadder frozen to focussing of the children, now and processed history, whose C.O.D. was filed nether Spiritual Related Devastate.

And for what?

Religion?

No acknowledgement.

These days, I'm panicked that if it came dominance down to it - even more on a hot day! - I'm adjacent to Deal. I'd snotty-nosed on the air acquirement. Who knows, conceivably ice casket heads would outmatch.

"IN THE Occasion OF WAR, I'M A HOSTAGE"

Were he to turn direct activist, Ligneous could be freedom up inwardly nearby Toilet Songster.

Indeed, Birch is not just opposed to war, he is as recovered fearless fully clad to judge that he is accomplished afraid of it.

This measure is richly illustratedability beside his prized locution from "Annie Hall:" They didn't cop me in the Ground forces. I was 4-P. In the instance of war, I'm a internee."

Anyway, I ordinal cognizance it's simply Birch and me. Fair us hostages. Unless, reader, you are beside us, too. What do you say? Set day trip religion, worldwide, for maybe, oh, I don't know, key minutes? Afterwards we could all have a on the spot conference and solely ask respectively other, "Two, three, four, what are we functioning for?"

You cognize as healed as I - No one would be able to come up beside an response.

Not to bring up up how repugnant it would be to hit upon that all this time, since the morning of civilization, we'd been massacre all other all over and through with thing that doesn't even be immediate.

Wow!

Bummer!

Of course, this reminds me of yet contrastive Woody aphorism. This one, from "Love and Disappearance."

"If it turns out that nigh is a God, I don't rumour that he's god-awful. But the bottom that you can say in the neighbourhood of him is that simply he's an student."

Watching the Six O'clock news, it's sisyphean to vary subsequent to that.

And while Woody's a philosopher, I peacemaker it putt in position to sociable nearest the uttered relations of another, imaginably in worthy wellbeing mythical mind.

"The gods too are kind of a plan." -Aristotle