pokerfan
Ha Ha Ha! Take that, atheists! Cee-lo Green rewrites John Lennon's Imagine!
Last edited Sun Jan 1, 2012, 01:13 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Checkmate, atheists!
Old version:
Imagine there's no countries.
It isn't hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for.
And no religion too.
Cee-lo's new and improved version:
Imagine there's no countries.
It isn't hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for.
All religion is true.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/camelswithhammers/2012/01/01/john-lennon-did-not-imagine-that-all-religion-is-true/
MarkCharles
1. Only religion can ALWAYS be right, (and self-contradictory) and
ONLY god-believing people can take the lyrics of a popular song and change the words to suit their own agendas, and get away with it legally when performing on national television networks with millions of viewers.
Yes, this shows how reversing the meaning of composers is perfectly acceptable among those believers in a god. Just throw out the philosophy of the composer, in an attempt to convince the world that John Lennon really believed "all religion is true". Amazing!
DESPICABLE, in my opinion.
Really?
dkf
3. Wow this is wrong.
To take someone's work and say the opposite of what they meant is not okay. If it were satire maybe, but this obviously isn't meant to be funny.
It's like rewriting the ending of someone else's book.
tama
4. You just can't help it, can you?
Turning every incident of disrespectful stupidity (and worse adjectives...) by a "believer", this case by Cee-Lo, into general attack against ALL believers:
"ONLY god-believing people"
"among those believers in a god."
MarkCharles
8. Sorry, but this guy has no ethics, and he
seems to believe in a god.
Show me an atheist that ripped off a popular song from the Beatles or a classic of Beethoven to make his self-centered point.
Better still: tell us why no Christian in this nation is standing up in protest over this outright theft of an artist's original work.
****ing really?
tama
22. I don't know
about whether he believes or pays lip service to... ehm... dunno what. And don't really care, funnily it's Satanism of sorts: I first read the idea "To each as he believes" in Bulgakov's novel "Satan comes to Moscow", and that was charming Satan's solution to believes about after life.
I'm not Christian and I'm not speaking for them and hope that you don't expect me to. My point was simply that firing a full side against all religious people because of an incident ("anecdotal evidence", if you like) is not very productive in any way. You would and do take offense if all atheists were accused because of one atheist (e.g. Stalin, brought to my mind now by Bulgakov), and correctly so.
Dorian Gray
31. I think that
allowing Cee Lo singing this was an affront to all the listeners on top of John Lennon's legacy. It was a travesty.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12184401It's funny/ironic/hypocritical/stupid/lazy how these paste-eaters can take a song--just a stupid little song-- with a line about wishing there was no religion and treat it as it were...
...Holy Writ.
What next?
Shall we drag Mr. Green before the Inquisition and examine his intents for evidence of heresy?
Shall we have the courts exact an Indulgence? Perhaps we shall have hime declared anathema to future public performances.
I'm sure that's what St. John of the Unwashed would want from his followers.
This displays perfectly my contempt for modern pop cultural atheism: these idiots simply cannot/will not understand ANY message not originating from the voices within their own tiny heads.
They reject religion by virtue of the fact they are incapable of understanding religion...as evidenced by the fact they cannot even understand appeals of non-religion. There is no higher truth embedded in "Imagine;" it's just a world-weary stoner's lamentation about not getting the world HE wanted personally for himself as if the other 6 billion souls never merited a vote.
But leave it to the uncritical followers of He-Who-Castigates-Followers to presume the hymn must be preserved, with "tittle and joy" accuracy.
It's not as if the song is hard to understand; it's just a collection of witless quips and half-thoughts.
No, it's because they will not see, thus they cannot see. They want the song to mean what they want it to mean...even though it means nothing. They assign the song an importance the song itself rejects.
This is the internal contradiction their creed.
This is why they fail their own baptisms and Confirmations.
This is why they are so contemptible.
