The Theology of Woody Allen
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” – Woody Allen
One would expect the neurotic, muttering, Woody Allen to say this. It fits with all of his fretful, eternally pessimistic movie-personas (or rather his one persona, reincarnate in every film he makes).
But what surprised me the other day was that this quote, more than any Scripture, had come to describe how I believe God relates to me.
We’re constantly being admonished to be careful what we pray for, to never say never, etc. Looking around, I think that we, the ironic generation, have come to believe that this is how God relates to us- ironically.
God is a controlling boss, who makes you work the weekend, just because he heard you had plans to go out of town.
God is an older sibling who takes the last cookie that you’ve been saving and saving.
God is like….”rain on your wedding day. A free ride, when you’ve already paid. The good advice that you just didn’t take. And who would have thought, it fig’rs.” (That’s the hymn for this theology).
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