I Can't Imagine a Dumber Song
How does it honor the dead to "Imagine there's no heaven"? How does it honor the firefighters who sacrificed their lives to mewl about "Nothing to...die for"? Indeed, it is sung by earnest churchgoers, even at Catholic Masses, who seem to perceive no particular contradiction between the liberating wonder of imagining there's no Heaven and the prayer which begins "Our Father who art in heaven." ... Everything the song advocates and hopes for as a supreme good was the fountainhead of all the horrors of the 20th century. Imagine there's no countries? Hitler dreamt of a world without borders. Imagine there's no heaven? No religion too? Stalin and Mao sought to free us from religion and the burden of hoping for something more than this life. Imagine no possessions? Communism was all about freeing us from possessions (though multi-zillionaire Lennon seems to have honored this dream more in the breach than the observance). Imagine all the people living for today? You got it! A culture of brain-dead MTV-educated "fornicate-today-and-abort-tomorrow" zombies has accomplished the mission.
I think it was Jonah Goldberg who once pointed out how much liberals like to remind us they're smarter than the rest of us. If that's the case, he asked, why do they find "Imagine" such a profound song?
Comments
Amen. Imagine is only a hymn to secular humanism.
Posted by: Jeff the Baptist | September 30, 2006 10:05 AM
Interesting. I think it's a beautiful song even without the lyrics. Perfect and crisp melody. It's quite timeless and it asks a great question: What IF there WAS no religion? I think I'd enjoy the world much better. And, as far as I know there may indeed be NO heaven. Have you any proof that there is a heaven? And don't say "faith." Faith is faith. Faith doesn't rely on proof or logic.
Posted by: Mike M. | September 30, 2006 10:36 PM
I do hate that song. The tune is actually quite pretty, but the lyrics stink. I can't believe anyone would sing it as a hymn without radically changing the words.
We've seen countries without religion--they're communist and they've been among some of the most brutal on the planet. The problem isn't religion but the hearts of men.
Posted by: Anna Venger | October 1, 2006 9:25 AM
Anna,
I don't think it's the lack of religion that made Communism so disgusting. It was the lack of sense and the extreme groupthink that did that. Injecting Jesus into Communism wouldn't have made it any better. The worst countries in the world seem to enjoy religion a bit too much. See: Iran. And that's exactly why I don't want theocratic tyrants like Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson ever coming to power in America. They've already got enough influence over a goon like Bush...
Posted by: Mike M. | October 1, 2006 4:35 PM
Mike,
You're my hero. Anyone who wants to can misinterpret anything--a song, a law, the bible.
Posted by: Mary | October 3, 2006 10:19 AM
You churchies are just upset that me and me mates are bigger than Jesus.
How about you spend eternity with those lovely fellas like Jim Jones, Koresh, Falwell, Bin Laden, Robertson, Swaggart, and the rest.....and I will spend it with the Lord.
When He called me home I discovered there is a heaven, after all. It is the place where none of you and those chaps can ever play your games.
Just remember Gazizza, the Lord wrote Imagine, not me.
Posted by: J. Lennon | October 4, 2006 9:42 AM