Leave it to Woody to find jealousy and regret in atheism. He would do well to follow George Bernard Shaw, a more clear-headed wit, who famously dismissed the apparent happiness of the religious with "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality." You can't be a master of reality if you don't start by acknowledging it.
Woody Allen: A Victim of His Own Success
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