Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. Luke 12:51

Sports writers still talk about the joy they used to take in interviewing the great New York Yankees catcher, Yogi Berra. Yogi was something of a rough-hewn philosopher given to malaprops and seemingly contradictory statements that managed to, somehow, still make a weird kind of sense.

It was Yogi who said: “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.” And, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” When giving his opinion of a New York restaurant, he’s reported to have said, “Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.” And, he may be best known for his advice to young people: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

One of the things that made Yogi’s aphorisms so funny and m…