From the National Catholic Register:
I was reminded of John Lennon’s song Imagine — so popular, apparently, with people of a secular nature. It is, in my view, one of the worst songs ever written in terms of its message. The song’s lyrics call for us to imagine a world in which there is no heaven or religion or countries:
Imagine there’s no heaven It’s easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today
Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too
The vision, therefore, is rather clear: Only a world in which there is no heaven or hell, no God, no religion, no countries, no possessions — and with our focus only on this world — can bring us peace. And that is because, allegedly, once those things are eliminated, there will be “nothing to kill or die for.”