Lennon, the totalitarian.

[Cartoonist]

https://nypost.com/2021/07/25/imagine-blared-at-the-olympics-is-a-totalitarians-anthem/

The Olympics opening ceremonies in Tokyo featured one of the worst pop songs of all time: Yes, I’m speaking of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” sung by a large children’s choir and a bevy of celebrities.

As a fan of the Beatles and Lennon especially, it pains me to say this, but it’s true: While its melody and arrangement are ­indeed beautiful, the lyrics are an invitation to moral and political chaos.

Consider the opening verse: “Imagine there’s no heaven / It’s easy if you try / No hell below us, above us only sky / Imagine all the people livin’ for today.”

I frankly can’t imagine anything worse. To say that there is no heaven or hell is to say that there is no absolute criterion of good and evil — no way of meaningfully determining the difference ­between right and wrong, no standard outside of the subjectivities of each moral actor by which to say any one agent is better than any other.
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Of course, it was written by

Robert Barron is the auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles.

Twitter: @BishopBarron