Posted on 01/10/2025 8:49:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I was surprised, if not shocked, when two A-list celebrities, country singers Garth Brooks and his wife Trisha Yearwood, took the microphones at the State Funeral for Jimmy Carter yesterday and began performing “Imagine,” written by former Beatle John Lennon in 1971. The song is widely described as an “atheistic anthem” and incredibly is said to be one of the late 39th president’s favorite songs.
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try.
No hell below us
Above us, only sky. . .
Imagine all the people
Livin’ for today
Ah
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
To me, it sounds like a globalist woke anthem, as well. As Phil Zuckerman, Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies at Pitzer College, wrote in 2021, the 50th anniversary of “Imagine:”
It is purposely and powerfully irreligious. From its opening lyric, ‘Imagine there’s no heaven,’ to the refrain, ‘And no religion too,’ Lennon sets out what is, to many, a clear atheistic message.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Because Jimmuh was a communist.
Lennon stated: “‘Imagine’, which says: ‘Imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics,’ is virtually The Communist Manifesto, even though I’m not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement.’ [10] He told NME: “There is no real Communist state in the world; you must realise that. The Socialism I speak about ... [is] not the way some daft Russian might do it, or the Chinese might do it. That might suit them. Us, we should have a nice ... British socialism.” [10]
“Imagine there’s no countries” therefore no Presidents.
The song is the Democrat’s official hymn
I thought the same thing.
According to Lennon, this was a SATIRE piece and he was annoyed at the way people turned it into a hippy anthem...........
The song is a siren call.
To the listener It’s like having a case of the crabs. You take the ashes from a lighted cigaret and rub them in the affected area. It won’t be a cure for the crabs but it sure feels good!
When those two started “singing” (and I use that word with a cringe) that song, I could NOT believe it. It’s one of the most anti-God songs in existence.
And I was under the impression all these years that Garth Brooks was a singer, although I never knew much about him. More like “whiner”. OMG! That was grueling and embarrassing.
BTTT
Because Jimmy Carter was a phony and a narcissist?
Also the 2nd dumbest man ever to be president.
Because Jimmy Carter embraced every leftist argument.
I looked through one of his books (at the bookstore, I would never spend my money on it).
His entire premise was that every single left wing position is the true “traditional American values”
So somehow this alleged “devout Christian” claimed that abortion, gay marriage, abolishing the death penalty, etc were all consistent with religious values and the founding of America.
I’m sure he believed the elimination of religion and God would be a wonderful place in which everyone would get along.
He was far more left wing than he pretended when in office.
Carter came to be an agnostic, came to hate religion and became self loathing. He did as much harm in his bitterness as he could to the American nation after his failed Predidency. As with most Democrats , he was mentally ill.
The left has “imagined” those things, and we’re saddled with failed communism, a joke of a pope, joke states like California, Washington, Oregon, New York, and Illinois - for the snort list. For a bonus, we get universities that cannot teach at an early 1900s fifth-grade level, publik skoolz that, well, require profanity to describe, and so much more. As is usual, Lenin proves the rule that talent in one area can result in no talent in every other area. H-wood is filled with those types of self-loving clowns.
Carter was one of what we see in the modern left, an overtly Christian public figure whose life and working career were largely focused on defeating Christianity.
Carter left his church in 2000 because of their holding to the Bible.
After the end of the winning elections part of their careers, Carter, Clinton, and Al Gore all left the Southern Baptist church.
“According to Lennon, this was a SATIRE piece and he was annoyed at the way people turned it into a hippy anthem...........”
ROTFLMAO!
Loved the melody. Not so much for the lyrics.
Carter was himself a religious man, a Christian, but I don’t think he ever challenged his many Marxist friends.
Anyone who seen my posts can figure that I'd rather them play " Problem Child" by ac/dc.
otoh, It would probably be Mercy Me and Amazing Grace. You're looking at a shell, the nut is gone.
BTW I don’t mind the song itself, John lennon isn’t going to change my views on God or anything else.
There was a time, aside from the communism, that an American president would select only American music for his funeral.
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