Dear Wednesday,
Do you remember a time when John Lennon’s song Imagine was considered controversial?
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Christians have condemned those words as blasphemous. According to a 2015 article in The National Review “to believers of older religion its (“Imagine’s”) open recommendation of an atheist faith cannot but sound lamentable and threatening.”
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace
These lines were attacked as unpatriotic. The National Review article concludes that “few songs are more divisive”.
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world
This verse was condemned for its “communist overtones.”
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Did I say was controversial? This Lennon/Ono penned song is still vilified by right wing Christians and other religious fundamentalists and political ideologues. …What would Jesus think?
Relating to today’s casual prompt “imagine” in the most tenuous way is the first of these three of my favourite cartoons:
Wishing you peace, love, blasphemy, unpatriotism, and communism,
~~FP
Fluffy Pool 
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