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It's hard to 'Imagine' that (Elton John "banning religion", deconstructing John Lennon's "Imagine")
Rocky Mountain News column ^
| Friday November 24th, 2006
| Mike Rosen
Posted on 11/24/2006 9:39:11 AM PST by ajolympian2004
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To: ajolympian2004
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posted on
11/24/2006 9:46:22 AM PST
by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: ajolympian2004
So while it is not okay to ban gay's, it is okay to ban religion.
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posted on
11/24/2006 9:48:43 AM PST
by
stockpirate
(John Kerry & FBI files ==> http://www.freerepublic.com/~stockpirate/)
To: doug from upland
Excellent. Sending off to Mike Rosen.
To: ajolympian2004
Thanks. I hope Mike enjoys it.
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posted on
11/24/2006 9:49:50 AM PST
by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: ajolympian2004
To: ajolympian2004
To: I see my hands
Amazing! I'll send that off to Mike Rosen as well.
To: ajolympian2004
It should be repeated over and over ...
" It seems his animus toward religion is driven largely by his status as a homosexual. He resents religiously based disapproval of his lifestyle and says that religion directs "hatred towards gay people." His ironic remedy is that religious intolerance, as he sees it, shouldn't be tolerated."
Faggots know they are wrong and will not/cannot 'win' ... Every freakin' religion (according to fahda John) is against queers.
If a religion attempts to explain God to man, and it decrees faggots are wrong ... guess what? God didn't make you that way ... you chose.
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posted on
11/24/2006 9:57:37 AM PST
by
knarf
(Islamists kill each other ... News wall-to-wall, 24/7 .. don't touch that dial.)
To: ajolympian2004
The author makes one mistake.
It is all communist.
No heaven, no hell (no purpose but to serve the master state).
No religion (superseded by the state).
No private property (Every thing is owned by the tyrants in control).
No nations (all one big Marxist global government).
Communism promises you heaven on earth (which is impossible due to human nature)
It enslaves you to obtain and build this heaven.
It then murders all that disagree or are in the way.
In the end it creates hell on earth.
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posted on
11/24/2006 10:23:31 AM PST
by
DaveTesla
(You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
To: ajolympian2004
Very good read! Thanks for posting!
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posted on
11/24/2006 10:25:11 AM PST
by
kipita
(Conservatives: Freedom and Responsibility------Liberals: Freedom from Responsibility)
To: ajolympian2004
Sir Elton John - recently declared in a magazine interview that "religion should be banned completely."
does this mean he will no longer be making cheesey Christmas Albums?
To: knarf
I don't need a religion to tell me that homosexual behavior is perverted and disgusting.It's an unnatural lifestyle that turns mother nature upside down.
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posted on
11/24/2006 10:44:16 AM PST
by
peeps36
(Rebuild Iraq's Army And Send It Over To Kick Iran In The Teeth)
To: ajolympian2004
I used to like Elton John, still do enjoy his music from time to time. As far as I am concerned, he jumped the shark in the late 80s to mid 90s.
His views on this topic are a damnation of him, not Christians.
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posted on
11/24/2006 10:50:54 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking it's heritage.)
To: DaveTesla
You hit it completely.
The stupidity of those whom are suckers enough to believe in this Socialist/Communist agenda is that they are caught up in the wonderfulness/idealist horseshit of the theory, but the practical reality of it is that they construct a greater evil, a greater "bigot" than the "bigot" they seek to oppose. And their egos blind them into being unable to see it.
Don't believe me, try to tell me, where their crap has been tried, how wonderful and fair and prosperous those countries have been. The answer would be goose-egg but again their egos and hatred keep them from admitting it.
Funny how unintellectual they become as they attempt to defend their own excrement.
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posted on
11/24/2006 11:02:53 AM PST
by
PRO 1
(POX on posters who's political bent causes them to refuse to be confused by the FACTS!!!!!!)
To: ajolympian2004
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 Actually, we do not have to imagine what happens where private property rights do not exist. Just go to any Third World hell hole and find the worst urban slums. There you will see people living in shacks built of mud, cardboard, and junk. No one bothers to build anything better because no one legally owns the land. (Would you devote time, effort, or money to building a house that could be taken away from you at any time without just compensation?) They cannot get loans on their homes or build capital for businesses for the same reason.
By the way, I have always hated that execrable song, "Imagine." It is the perfect prescription for hell on earth, written by a drug-addled twit. No thanks.
To: ajolympian2004
Now, Elton John is a talented musician. Not since he turned to making formula Disney soundtracks. The Yellow Brick Road guy is long gone.
To: DoughtyOne
As far as I am concerned, he jumped the shark in the late 80s to mid 90s. To me that shark was Princess Diana's funeral, when he heaped onto the pile of overly melodramatic public mourning a re-written copy of his "Goodby Norma Jean."
To: ajolympian2004
"Elton John - make that Sir Elton John..."No, make that Homosexual Pedophile Elton John.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
11/24/2006 11:31:08 AM PST
by
wku man
(BLOAT!!!!!!!)
To: ajolympian2004
Actually, I think the woman (describing herself as a devout Christian) got it right, but perhaps without knowing it. I've always liked the song Imagine, but not in the way Lennon probably meant it, or in the way most people on the left see it. Essentially, what Christians want for the world is pretty well spelled out in that song. The difference is that we recognize that such a utopian state can only be achieved by God himself. Someone else in this thread mentioned that a totalitarian regime was the only way such a state could occur. I agree, and if the regime is human controlled, it will fail and produce exactly the opposite of what it is striving for. But, if God is the ruler and controller, these dreams can (and will, in my view and hope) be fulfilled in heaven. When the song says "Imagine there's no heaven", consider that Lennon likely was thinking of a very distorted and weak view of heaven exemplified by the popular culture, and not the real heaven that God has in store for us. Indeed, what is heaven in Christian thought but a true "brotherhood of man", with "nothing to kill or die for"? As far as possessions, everyone will recognize that everything is owned by God, but that he gives us the rights to them freely, etc. In short, Lennon's mistake was, presumably, thinking that humans alone could pull this off, but not in yearning for such a state for humanity.
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