"Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No Hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too..."
Et cetera, et cetera.
Of all the whiney-assed, inappropriate, totally OUT OF TOUCH things he could have come up with, WHY THIS? WHAT A BURNED OUT, BRAIN DAMAGED, OLD HIPPIE PUNK! SEND HIM BACK TO ONTARIO! But that won't happen. He has a career to resurrect, just like Mariah Carey. Who the Hell invited this guy? David Geffen?
Ease up and take the bit out of your mouth for a second to breathe.
It's not just the line "Imagine there's no Heaven." It's the idea that without G-d, without Heaven, "peace" is still an ideal. Or that any ideal is legitimate. It is only because of G-d that right and wrong, justice and injustice can even exist. If there is no G-d to define peace and to declare it good, to define war as evil, then all such ideals are just personal hangups with no objective worth. None whatsoever. Why would a war that killed millions of people be any different from a war between anthills that killed millions of ants? And despite the fact that the left constantly cackles that "humans are just animals," they obviously don't really believe it. If they did they would realize that one has no more meaning than the other. But just as they demand a worldwide totalitarian government run by humans, so they demand an idealism of humans that no animal is burdened with. And no amount of shouting "humans are just animals" can cover the huge gap between what they say and what they act on. In other words, "imagine there's no heaven" as a prelude to any kind of ideal is an oxymoron. It's nonsense.
The other contradiction in the song is that while dreaming of a world with "nothing to live or die for," it is the song of a man who is living for something and wants other people to live for it too. It's an anti-idealist idealism that is such an absolute contradiction that anyone who can think logically at all would probably crash like one of those computers Captain Kirk used to talk into nervous breakdowns.
And finally, "you may say I am a dreamer / But I'm not the only one / We hope some day that you join us" screams the question: WHO IS WE????? The Illuminati? David Rockefeller? Le Roi du Monde? The Lucis Trust??? I mean, come on, people! And these people, whoever they are, have derived some sort of absolute meaning from what they proclaim to be the absolute meaningless of the world. I mean, think about it. If there is no Heaven, and if you really want nothing to live or die for, why not do like the "other animals" and just go out and graze our lives away instead of embarking on meaningless "moral crusades"????? And this is really the closest thing to Communism in the song, for the most maddening thing about Communism is not this or that plank in its platform but the very idea that in a random, meaningless world made only of matter, there can be any kind of moral mission whatsoever. This is the ultimate contradiction of Marxist, Nazi, and all Hegelian world interpretations. Life is assigned a meaninging in the absence of G-d. And why there is a need for "peace," "socialism," "justice," or "scientific racial idealism" in a meaningless, self-existent universe is something they never get around to explaining. Because they can't.