Posted on 11/29/2023 12:49:53 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Superstar country music couple Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks performed an odd song to sing at former first lady Rosalynn Carter’s funeral on Tuesday with John Lennon’s anti-religious, left-wing themed song “Imagine,” even though Carter was a devout Southern Baptist Christian.
The singers, dressed all in black, performed an acoustic rendition of the vapid Lennon song which contains the lyrics “Imagine there’s no Heaven,” “No hell below us Above us, only sky,” and “Imagine… no religion, too.”
The pair delivered a nice recitation of the popular, left-wing dream tune, certainly. But to sing that there is no heaven and no religion at the funeral of a woman who has always been portrayed as a devout Christian is certainly a strange choice.
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“Garth Brooks is a no-talent rich kid with a huge supplied OIL moneyed trust fund in excess of 20 million dollars”
What a stupid post! Do you realize that Garth Brooks is probably worth $300-400 million?
Beyond TACKY and a lack of awareness.
They are in a church to begin with...
“They took the “o” out of “Country Music” ...”
I thought that was the Ditzy Broads?
Size of venue perhaps?
I like the song, but couldn’t recall any of its lyrics. When I saw what they were, why would they sing that? It is so inappropriate for a woman who’s Christian identity is paramount. Oy vey. I’m going to have to read comments, to see if anyone has a non-Atheist reason.
What church did they then join? In brief, do you know why they left the Baptist church?
Well, since this wasn’t the private family funeral, we know Rosalynn Carter didn’t choose the song.
Good point.
They changed to a more liberal, less Christian Baptist church because the Southern Baptists were adhering to the Bible too much.
In 2000—”Carter’s October 2000 split from the Convention followed its June vote that women should no longer serve as pastors. The SBC also voted to condemn racism, homosexuality, abortion, pornography and adultery.”
Hmm. Sounds like Christianity wasn’t that important to the Carters. Maybe they did choose to have the atheist hymn sung.
“Ditzy Broads”?
“They” is plural and covers a lot of ground. The “Ditzy Chunks” were certainly part of it.
Christians came to see Carter as an unpleasant Christian and Reagan as a man who lived and was guided by his Christian faith.
Abzug was an extreme Lefty representing Manhattan’s “Silk stocking district” and as you pointed out was of Jewish heritage. Mrs. Carter appeared with Abzug at the big “Women on the Move” fest in Texas. Betty Ford was also there. The agenda was largely a pro-abortion one.
Nellie Gray was the leader of the annual March for Life in Washington each winter and was thus the opposite of Mrs. Carter.
“””Maybe they did choose to have the atheist hymn sung.”””
I think that is certain, and it is part of the mystifying hidden undercurrent to that political couple’s incredibly public religiosity.
Abortion is an example of how Carter played the religion game with the American public and why Christians came to question his authenticity.
From wiki
Abortion
“Although Carter was personally opposed to abortion, he supported legalized abortion after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113 (1973).[2] Early in his term as governor, Carter had strongly supported family planning programs including abortion to save the life of a woman, birth defects, or in other extreme circumstances. Years later, he had written the foreword to a book, Women in Need, that favored a woman’s right to abortion. He had given private encouragement to the plaintiffs in a lawsuit, Doe v. Bolton, filed against the state of Georgia to overturn its abortion laws.[3] As president, he did not support increased federal funding for abortion services. He was criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union for not doing enough to find alternatives.[4]
In a March 29, 2012, interview with Laura Ingraham, Carter expressed his wish to see the Democratic Party becoming more anti-abortion, allowing it only in the case of rape, incest or risk of maternal death.”
ah....well the best satire rings true and doesn’t seem like satire.....
“she was also a church Deacon.”
So much for, “let the women be silent in church” and “the husband of one wife”.
“HOW DO WE KNOW THAT ROSALYNN didn’t pick that song?”
I assumed she did. Just show that she’s a mental midget, as are most libs.
Too bad the lyrics are so terrible; the tune is soothing and pretty. Let’s piss off the left and write new lyrics and turn it into a hymn.
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