Kind of like a world after the resurrection of the dead. There will be no religion, if one achieves Beatific Vision, religion will no longer be necessary, as will possessions, physical sustenance and so on.Hmm, I guess I thought everyone knew them, and knew the anti-religion content… here they are.
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Saved from what?He has definitely saved many of us.
And that says what? The head of the FBI at the time was one of the biggest criminals that this country has ever seen. If a FBI director did today what Hoover did back in his day, he would spend the rest of his life in jail.The FBI had a thick file on John Lennon.
Not many saints abandon their first wife and child to run off with their lover.Perhaps John Lennon is a Saint.
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Lennon was a man of peace, a dreamer who sang:Not many saints abandon their first wife and child to run off with their lover.
I like Lennon’s music, too, but let’s not make the man out as something that he wasn’t. I’m sure he would be repulsed at your suggestion that he is a saint.
John Lennon physically abused his first wife and shamefully treated his son Julian. It is all readily documented. Give Peace a Chance and All You Need Is Love are great songs but they are just that, songs. They aren’t a medal of virtue for the person who wrote them. If you know anything about Lennon then you would know that he did not like the adoration and praise that was heaped upon him. Of the Beatles, he said “we were just a band that made it big.” Don’t make more of him than what he was.Lennon was a man of peace, a dreamer who sang:
Give Peace a Chance
All you need is love
Perhaps he was indeed a saint, as his music and the music of the Beatles have indeed saved many people, and brought light and love to people in the darkest of times in their life, such as mine.
I’m sure John is not repulsed, but is laughing up there in Heaven right now.
Surely one should judge the message and not the messenger. It’s like the people who judge the Church for all the sex abuse scandals. A smoker doctor who tells his patient to quit smoking is still correct.John Lennon physically abused his first wife and shamefully treated his son Julian. It is all readily documented. Give Peace a Chance and All You Need Is Love are great songs but they are just that, songs. They aren’t a medal of virtue for the person who wrote them. If you know anything about Lennon then you would know that he did not like the adoration and praise that was heaped upon him. Of the Beatles, he said “we were just a band that made it big.” Don’t make more of him than what he was.
theCrow is suggesting that Lennon is a saint because of the songs he wrote. The evidence is that his actions were far from saintly. Like his music all you want but don’t try to put him on a pedestal.Surely one should judge the message and not the messenger. It’s like the people who judge the Church for all the sex abuse scandals. A smoker doctor who tells his patient to quit smoking is still correct.
I think he may have meant some sort of secular/post modern/new age type of saint or a person who is a motivator for positive behavior and not necessarily someone who led a saintly life in the original Christian context.theCrow is suggesting that Lennon is a saint because of the songs he wrote. The evidence is that his actions were far from saintly. Like his music all you want but don’t try to put him on a pedestal.