I'll keep the question short and sweet. Was John Lennon atheist or..? His song Imagine suggests it, and I can't find definitive answers. Anyone have an opinion they would like to share on the matter?
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John Lennon
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I'm not at all sure it matters, but I don't think Lennon would ever have considered himself 'atheist'. He came off as having a rather nebulous spirituality. If one has to stick a label on it, I think 'pantheist' would have described him best.
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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
 Quote:Imagine there's no countries If not...he sure as hell was on the right track.  (November 20, 2014 at 7:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I'm not at all sure it matters, but I don't think Lennon would ever have considered himself 'atheist'. He came off as having a rather nebulous spirituality. If one has to stick a label on it, I think 'pantheist' would have described him best. Hmm. It doesn't really matter. I am just studying up on him. Interesting guy. 
He was certainly speaking against the evils of the religious establishments, and of a moral hierarchy that condemns individuals to hell for their natural feelings and actions.
 (November 20, 2014 at 6:46 pm)JaceDeanLove Wrote: I'll keep the question short and sweet. Was John Lennon atheist or..? His song Imagine suggests it, and I can't find definitive answers. Anyone have an opinion they would like to share on the matter? "Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky" If those aren't the words of an atheist, I'll eat my Epiphone Casino.
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John Lennon in a interview I saw years ago, said that when we die, its like going from one car to another. He didn't believe in a god as the Christians do but he believed their was something, I think Einstein sort of thought the same.
RE: John Lennon
November 20, 2014 at 11:33 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2014 at 11:34 pm by simplemoss.)
I'm not a huge john Lennon fan but I'm pretty sure he was raised Christian became sort of an anarchist, then started doing LSD and peyote and started practicing eastern religions like hinduism ( like mostpeople who do lsd tend too do) then became a Communist. I'm not sure if he became Communist (Maoist to be exact) before or after he met Yoko but lines like "imagine no possessions I wonder if you can" are Communist based lyrics
He believed in something like reincarnation. we die our memories of us are gone then poof were a baby again and live a new life all over again.
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