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Imagine....

I did not watch (and would not watch) the charade that was put together to supposedly honor the first Iranian winner of the Nobel Peace Prize on A&E for reasons I have explained before. But I just heard (from a reader that uses emails!) that they altered John Lennon's "Imagine" for the night and replaced "no religion too" with "no division too".

Wow! If true, you mean even the dead man's words were that scary to the religious extremists? When Lennon wrote "no religion too", he meant NO RELIGION TOO, period. If you don't agree or feel this is valid, or if your primary audience in the bible belt or occupied Babylon (the concert was obviously not broadcast in Iran) feels offended by the suggestion of one artist that the world may be a better place without religion, pick a different artist and a different song!

I often feel as if I grew up in a dogmatic country, spent many years in a society that is at least trying hard to break out of its past doctrine and moved back to a third country that is just as unbending and authoritarian as the first one. Wake up people!

Here's the ORIGINAL version of Imagine, the way the artist meant it:

Imagine

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,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

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...

You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.