Post-Easter Depression

If you are suffering from Post-Easter Depression, just hang on and try to enjoy the moment, for my calendar says that the next Depression this year will be the Pre-Christmas Depression which is at least eight months away. To help you to survive through your PED, I offer you eight of my aphorisms on the Death of God :

(A) In the beginning was God. But God would have to be very lucky to be still around when it all comes to an end.

(B) Jesus Christ came into our world to show us how much God loves us. We have never forgiven Jesus Christ for that insult.

(C) If God is dead, everything is permitted. A powerful argument to be liberally used in all places --- all places except, of course, the court-room.

(D) God created Man in His own image. Man repaid God the compliment by creating Woman in his.

(E) Everything that Sigmund Freud said about God can be condensed into one short sentence : Religion is a sexually transmitted disease. Freud himself was the first man to be diagnosed with this disease; however, whether or not he was also the last man remains a hotly disputed matter in Vienna, Oxford, Chicago and Princeton.

(F) God is not born as, but if He can learn to suffer He may become, a human being.

(G) God is the Supreme Colonialist. He divides men into different religions and rules over them.

(H) Some religions prohibit human beings from eating chicken. This is because they object not to the suffering of the killed chicken but to the pleasure of the delighted eater.