So, while Woody’s sense of humor and insight into human nature are indeed masterful, he always disappoints me when he brings real truth to the fore, but then backs away from the obvious answer to the spiritual malaise. He appears to just not want to accept that answer. Possibly it’s too simple an answer to him, or he just wants to continue in his unbelief.
You're too good a person to see what Woody is doing.
He's deliberately teaching despair, and very carefully lying to do it.
He's evil.
>”He’s deliberately teaching despair, and very carefully lying to do it”<
Who does Woody think he is, Obama?
re: “ He’s deliberately teaching despair, and very carefully lying to do it. He’s evil.”
Woody is a lost, lost sinner. We’ve ALL sinned and fall short of the glory of God. All of us are evil in that sense.
Woody Allen is as lost as a goose. Though he seems to know innately that the problem of evil is within man himself, he just shrugs and walks away from the solution. I don’t know if he is any more evil than anyone else though.
If there is no God, as Woody intimates, then he is exactly correct to despair, because then he has accurately pointed out that there is no meaning, no transcendent foundation for morality. He gets that. He seems to acknowledge the despair, but doesn’t want to embrace the despair, he just goes on doing his thing.
He rejects Christianity because it’s not sophisticated enough, or he thinks those that do accept it aren’t sophisticated enough, I’m not sure which. I just wish he would truly look at the claims of Christ and quit his superficial straw-man objections.
But, as it says in John 1, “men preferred the darkness rather than the light.” It’s probably no more complicated than that.