Abbott (an ironic name as you'll see later) and Costello go into a diner but they have very little money to purchase food (perhaps enough for a cup of coffee). So, Costello asks Abbott if he can order anything he wants (free will), and Abbott says "sure". So Costello says to the waiter, "I'll have a steak sandwich". Immediatelly Abbott pulls Costello aside and slaps him around for ordering something they can't afford. "Why did you do that? You said I can order anything I want...."
Do you see a comparison to how God gives man free will, but then turns around and punishes him if he makes the "wrong" choice?
2007-09-07 01:34:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Your point is that God is a lousy old time Music Hall Comedian who got a lot of exposure?
2007-09-07 01:41:49 · answer #1 · answered by fooles.troupe 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God gives us free will but also recommended the good way, and give warnings on the wrong way. Abbott failed to specify Costello to order just coffee. Abbott lied, or was wrong when he replied "sure". God says Yes, He means Yes, when He said No, He means No. That is the comparsion.
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God wanted to interact with us (free willed independent beings), not with puppets who do only what the puppet master make it to do by pulling this or that other string.
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Preffered the Who is on first? Incomplete line up:
Who's on first,
What's on second,
I Don't Know's on third
Why on left field
Because at center field
Tomorrow as pitcher
Today is the catcher
and the shortstop is I don't give a darn!
Do aynone know the right fielder? My choice Roberto Clemente.
2007-09-07 04:03:33 · answer #2 · answered by Darth Eugene Vader 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember them but I wasn't a big fan of Abbott and Costello. My three grown sons love them and the Three Stooges too.
2016-05-18 21:10:13 · answer #3 · answered by bettye 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're right, although I'm not certain that Abbott and Costello saw it that way. It was more like the 1930s "everybody's poor" jokes where people laughed to keep from crying.
2007-09-07 01:56:26 · answer #4 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not getting the similarity. Abbott and Costello are both human and equal. God is not human.
2007-09-07 01:51:40 · answer #5 · answered by Sal D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I don't see this like you want me too.
Maybe because I have seen this and everything else they did multi times. I know their stories and all about them.
Costello was a master of showing us we only laugh at some one else pain.
There wasn't much God in his act or his life.
Remember he and Abbot were both Jews so adjust your view. You are trying to attribute Christian values on them in a jokingly unfunny way.
2007-09-10 21:55:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
THEY say their god plays tricks on his supplicants. I think it's foolish to apply stupid human characteristics and emotional delinquency to an omnipotent god. Maybe that's why he never talks to us (if he exists) People will take what he said and get it all screwed up again, like they did in the bible and like they do on TV and in churches, mosques and synagogues. It's just NOT so.
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2007-09-07 01:41:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because man has free will doesn't excuse him for doing wrong. I could rob a bank, but I am not going to do it.
2007-09-07 01:43:15 · answer #8 · answered by Max 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I see the comparison, but what point are you trying to make?
2007-09-07 01:39:24 · answer #9 · answered by duke 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it kinda breaks down in the fact that he didn't torture him for eternity doesn't it?
2007-09-07 01:49:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋