The funeral for one of the United States’ worst presidents was serenaded with John Lennon’s worst song.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president, was honored Thursday with a service at the Washington National Cathedral that would have been fitting for a former commander in chief who was also well known for espousing Christian beliefs and teaching Sunday School at his Baptist church in Plains, Georgia.
But the inclusion of the explicitly anti-Christian song “Imagine” cast a shadow on the proceedings that not even a performance by country music stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood could brighten.
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From the very first line, the song’s dismal nihilism proclaims itself opposing the fundamental Christian belief of an afterlife.
“Imagine there’s no heaven,” Lennon wrote in the title track of his 1971 album. “It’s easy if you try. No hell below us. Above us only sky. […]
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