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“Above Us Only Sky”
New American Prophet ^ | January 15, 2025 | Dr. Jerry Newcombe

Posted on 01/16/2025 6:59:11 AM PST by Rev M. Bresciani

Jimmy Carter helped put “born again” Christianity on the map in America. He made a big deal about his having accepted Jesus as his Savior and Lord. Many conservatives were disappointed with his governance, but no one could deny his consistent profession of faith.

When the 100-year-old former president’s funeral service was held in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., it was odd that there was a mixture of beautiful Christian sacred music, along with Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood singing John Lennon’s atheistic ballad, “Imagine.”

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TOPICS: History; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: jimmycarter; johnlennon
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1 posted on 01/16/2025 6:59:11 AM PST by Rev M. Bresciani
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2 posted on 01/16/2025 7:03:04 AM PST by Beowulf9 ( )
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evil


3 posted on 01/16/2025 7:10:08 AM PST by imabadboy99
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To: Rev M. Bresciani

Lenin was more destructive than Lennon.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UaiGABTj0aA


4 posted on 01/16/2025 7:13:44 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Expect nothing less from wokenista C&W libs. Always hated that song.


5 posted on 01/16/2025 7:13:48 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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A great many people listen to songs without every trying to understand the lyrics.

“Imagine” was and is a push for atheism and a claim that man, at heart, is “good”.

It is an denial of reality.


6 posted on 01/16/2025 7:14:44 AM PST by marktwain
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We were as much suckers 50 years ago as we are today.

If the spin didn’t work, they wouldn’t bother with it.


7 posted on 01/16/2025 7:15:21 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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8 posted on 01/16/2025 7:15:41 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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He's dead, let him go to whatever reward he has


9 posted on 01/16/2025 7:16:35 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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Carter may have begun as a born again Christian, but his declining trust in Scripture and the influence of his liberal friend group shaped him to the left over time.


10 posted on 01/16/2025 7:17:18 AM PST by lurk (u)
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Many conservatives were disappointed with his governance...

It's pretty hard to screw up economic policies bad enough to warrant a 21% prime rate of interest, but Carter managed to do it. Indeed, my ranking for the worst Presidents in history starts with: 1) Carter, 2) Obama, and 3) Biden. Never in the history of this Republic have so few screwed up so much in so little time.

11 posted on 01/16/2025 7:24:34 AM PST by econjack
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Did-did-did-did you see the frightened ones?
Did-did-did-did you hear the falling bombs?
Did-did-did-did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the
promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath the clear blue sky?

-PJ

12 posted on 01/16/2025 7:26:38 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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“Imagine” has a pretty melody and is well crafted. But IMHO it’s a song of absolute despair. Lennon’s lyrics seem that of one who has lost all hope, knowing all he imagines can never happen in secular Earth. Odd it would sung at a professing Christian’s funeral. Wonder who selected that song? Seems almost a middle finger to our 39th president’s professed faith.


13 posted on 01/16/2025 7:27:23 AM PST by FiddlePig (The greatest threat to our sacred liberty is to not value it!””)
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To: marktwain

IIRC, towards the end of his life, Lennon pretty much distanced himself from it.


14 posted on 01/16/2025 7:27:35 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Imagine was a song, nothing more, nothing less. You like or hate it much like Carter.


15 posted on 01/16/2025 7:34:10 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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Jesus Christ said you can’t serve two masters. By supporting abortion and sexual confusion, Jimmah appears to have thought otherwise.


16 posted on 01/16/2025 8:01:12 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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Jimmy was a born-again Democrat atheist who professed Christianity, but believed in abortion, homosexual weddings and all the other things that are anti-decency.

He was a tremendously failed president.


17 posted on 01/16/2025 8:16:16 AM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush!)
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Jimmy was a born-again Democrat atheist who professed Christianity, but believed in abortion, homosexual weddings and all the other things that are anti-decency.


Basically Jim Jones without the Kool-Aid.


18 posted on 01/16/2025 8:16:48 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I can deny his faith!

His actions did not match up to his confession!


19 posted on 01/16/2025 8:24:53 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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I’ve read where Lennon hated Jimmy Carter, but loved Ronald Reagan.


20 posted on 01/16/2025 8:34:11 AM PST by RightWingNut
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