(July 17, 2013 at 1:55 pm)festive1 Wrote:(July 17, 2013 at 3:07 am)Godschild Wrote: He's dead dumb dumb. He also knows something you don't.
Lennon was an atheist or at the very least an agnostic. Just look at his lyrics, not only to Imagine, but to God (the Dream is Over), where he states, "I don't believe in Bible... I don't believe in Jesus... I don't believe in Buddha... I don't believe in Mantra..." etc. And it culminates in, "I just believe in me. Yoko and me, and that's reality." Doesn't sound like a believer to moi. There are other songs of his where a non-faith worldview can be inferred, if not explicitly stated.
I believe Yoko Ono still owns the rights to most of Lennon's post-Beatles music. The guy doing this cover could be sued, assuming he's selling this tripe.
It really bugs me when people misappropriate music or other artworks for their own rather than their intended purposes... My dad loves Bob Marley, yet he's a racist... I still don't understand how he reconciles his love for the artist with his worldview.
I find it interesting that you're trying to teach me something about Lennon or the Beatles, I grew up with them and I was as disappointed as anyone when they dissolved the band. The Beatles wrote a lot of great music, but as a Christian there are some songs that I can not agree with, which is my right and I could not care less what your opinion is of mine. I would like to find all there songs without the words, their music is still some of my favorite. I fell the same about the Marshall Tucker Band, both bands were some of the best writing music. Just because I appreciated the words put to this song doesn't mean anything other than that, you guys jumped the gun as usual, trying to tell me things about music that I was listening to before most of you were born.
The person who put the words to Lennon's song more than likely got permission to do so. Many of the old rock songs have had there words changed and recorded for the Christian community, some by the original artist and some by other artist, all were done legally, Christians do not usually purposely break the law.
Yoko Ono was probably more interested in the money she would get from a reword of the song than what the original song meant to others.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
