You mean do? Well, I wasn't saying he was a perfect person or something. Wasn't saying he was Jesus.
Just that he had an idea, and I think it was a nice idea, if a bit nieve.
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"Imagine no possessions" ..... I don't think he tried very hard to imagine that one
Perhaps he's not tolerant, then.
What he's talking about, and what he wants (or wanted) was for everyone to live together in harmony. And towards that purpose he envisioned that all of the things that divide people be gone.
You mean do? Well, I wasn't saying he was a perfect person or something. Wasn't saying he was Jesus.
Just that he had an idea, and I think it was a nice idea, if a bit nieve.
You mean do? Well, I wasn't saying he was a perfect person or something. Wasn't saying he was Jesus.
Just that he had an idea, and I think it was a nice idea, if a bit nieve.
Haven't you seen the video? Great big country house nothing in it except a piano?
I've been an atheist all my life (my mother is a christian; she never goes to church though), and it was long before I even heard of Hitchens, Dawkins, Sam Harris etc. I dont take anything they say as being true without having thought about it carefully. For instance, I disagree with much of what Hitchens says about politics.
Saying atheism is a religion is like saying not playing basketball is a sport, or that "off" is a TV channel.
The burden of proof is on the believers to prove their god(s), or anything supernatural in the first place. There are so many religions, holy texts etc. that it would be silly to favor one over the others.
1 Kings 18:38-39 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that [was] in the trench. (39) And when all the people saw [it], they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he [is] the God; the LORD, he [is] the God.
And KABOOM!!! The fire of the LORD fell and burned up the whole thing- sacrifice, wood, stones, water, and dust. In startling contrast to the mute response of the false idol Baal, God speaks and speaks mightily. The people fell on their faces and replied with the confession The LORD, he is the God! And then the prophets of Baal get their due.
1 Kings 18:40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. (450 unbelievers/ mockers of God)
He wasn't being naive, he clearly had no intention of really having no possessions.
Proof of an Almighty God? Be careful what you wish for...
And his attitude is one of the biggest. He's not looking at the man
in the mirror, or asking him to change his ways. He's asking everyone
else to change their ways and join his "club". Those who don't are excluded.
It's OK. Lots of people don't see it.
They want the world to change to suit their idea of a perfect world.
It's RUDE to ask others to think like you to be happy.
Change thine own sad attitude to find happiness and unity with the rest of the world.
The problem that JL has is that he leaves God out of the equation. That is a recipe for disaster -not unity. Don't you believe that God who created all things has the right to redeem His creation back to Himself?Ah, but he's not asking that. He's imagining what the world would be like if, all those beliefs and creeds which divide people were not there, and the world could "live as one."
Ah, but, again, what Lennon is envisioning is not a man pretending that the world lives in unity, but a world that actually lives in unity.
Like I said, a bit nieve, but it's a nice thought.
Though some people who derive their own happiness from those beliefs which divide may be offended by the idea.
He asking everyone to join him and be as one. Doesn't that sound familiar?
The problem that JL has is that he leaves God out of the equation. That is a recipe for disaster -not unity. Don't you believe that God who created all things has the right to redeem His creation back to Himself?
SkyWriting said:As I said, one needs to change themselves.
God grant me the wisdom to know I can't change the world around me.
And my point is that atheism divides people alsoThe exact line is "and no religion too". He leaves things which divide people out of his scenario.
Which is the point of the song.
And my point is that atheism divides people also
TasManOfGod said:The problem that JL has is that he leaves God out of the equation.
Hi guys,
For all of you on the, 'science has proven' track. Here ya go:
Science and religion: God didn't make man; man made gods - Los Angeles Times
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