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Is the song Imagine anti religious?
In Geoffrey Giuliano’s book, Lennon In America, Lennon described “Imagine” as “anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic… but because it’s sugar-coated, it’s accepted.” Covers of it came thick and fast (the website Second Hand Songs lists 402 recorded and live versions).
Can I listen to the Beatles as a Christian?
No. Even at their deepest, the Beatles were a pop band, and pop music is lighter than air, simply a three-minute diversion. There’s no sin and no shame in a Christian loving secular music unless you take it too seriously and it becomes a disctraction from living your life. Enjoy the Beatles, I certainly do.
Who did the Beatles worship?
Although all four Beatles were associated with either Protestantism or Roman Catholicism in their childhood, they had all abandoned their religious upbringings by 1964. In 1965, while filming for Help! in the Bahamas, a Hindu gave each of them a copy of a book on reincarnation.
Is Imagine banned?
It is known across the world as an anthem to peace. But 35 years after it was written, John Lennon’s hit song Imagine has been banned at one school for being too subversive. Pupils at the church school were prohibited from singing the song – after its lyrics were deemed anti-religious.
What did John Lennon say about God in Imagine?
Specifically regarding “Imagine,” Lennon said, “If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion — not without religion but without this ‘my-God-is-bigger-than-your-God thing’ — then it can be true.” Lennon also noted that “God is a concept by which we measure our pain. ” He was on to something with that, too.
Why don’t Conservatives in Pakistan like John Lennon’s songs?
Nevertheless, conservatives in Pakistan and elsewhere aren’t buying it. Ever since he opined that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, Lennon’s spiritual and religious insights have been mostly rejected by conservatives, many of whom still bristle at “Imagine” and reflexively dismiss the song.
Do they know something we don’t about John Lennon?
Perhaps they know something we don’t about the imaginary world of John Lennon. Graffiti on a wall once proclaimed “God is dead. —Nietzsche” to which someone later inscribed, “Nietzsche is dead. —God.” Today, of the fellow who once proclaimed that he and the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ, it can be said, “Lennon (and Lenin) is dead.
Is John Lennon an atheist?
I’m certainly not an atheist.” Previously, Lennon had stated, ”I believe in God but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us.”