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In 1990, on the 10th anniversary of John Lennon's murder, Pat Robertson, the television 'evangelist', spent an hour condemning John Lennon as being anti-god and evil.
I was channel surfing when I came across the lyrics of John Lennon's 'Imagine' on a flip chart. It was Pat Robertson's 700 Club show and he was attacking John and the song Imagine?
Pat Robertson, the same radical right winger who proposed assassinating other world leaders, used a flip chart with every line from Lennon's song "Imagine". Robertson attacked every line, one by one. He even attacked the line 'brotherhood of man'.
The real evil was in the hate-filled hypocrite Robertson. Perhaps if Robertson obviously never even bothered to listen to Lennon's song "Beautiful Boy", a song about a father's love for his son. I doubt Robertson would even understand the song about a father's love for his son even though the Bible is a story about a father's (God) love for his son (Jesus).
It is unfortunate that Robertson is a 'leader' who has the ability to dupe and manipulate so many illiterate, ignorant and hate-filled people into believing his right wing agenda. It is sad how Robertson's clout among the religious extremists in the US caused them to vote for the likes of the evil criminal GW Bush, who is responsible for the murder of almost 5,000 American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. And all of their deaths were the result of Bush deliberately lying to go to war so he could funnel hundreds of billions from our treasury to the pockets of corrupt corporations in the form of no-bid contracts.
God help spare us from the evilness and ignorance of the republican party and religious fanatics in the United States. John Lennon would be bravely speaking out against the tyranny of the right wing mutants of today just as he did while he was alive. John was eloquent in his commentary of his times and are deeply missed today. We the people need more leaders like John Lennon to speak out for them.
It is too bad we lost such a great voice for social justice and all of the wonderful music John could have created for the world during the past 28 years since he was murdered. The same delusional sickness that consumed the mind of the murderer of Lennon also resides in the mind of people like Pat Robertson and his followers. Amen, and amen... (but I pray to the real God, not the god of the right wing of the republican party, ie, the 'god of capitalism'. If Jesus were to return today right wing republicans would crucify him all over again because Jesus fed the hungry, he gave to the poor, he associated with flawed people, he helped the sick, and he gave hope to the downtrodden). Imagine...
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