Catholic miseducation.Waterloo, ON -- Recently St. David's Catholic school celebrated Remembrance Day. The celebration included a John Lennon Noun 1. John Lennon - English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980) Lennon song entitled Imagine as a way of honouring those brave soldiers who fought and died for the freedom we now enjoy. The lyrics lyrics npl [of song] → paroles fpl lyrics lyric npl [of song] → Text m indicate that this school is adrift in a kind of New Age wishy-washiness. First Lennon invites his audience to, "Imagine there's no heaven ... No hell ... Imagine all the people living for today." Then he invites us to imagine that there are "no countries" and that there is "no religion," and that "possessions" must be done away with so that the problems of "greed" and "hunger" can be abolished. In the last stanza stan·za n. One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines. [Italian; see stance. of "Imagine," Lennon presents himself as a "dreamer" who should be taken seriously if the world is "to live as one." Comment Lennon's song is nothing less than the staged denunciation DENUNCIATION, crim. law. This term is used by the civilians to signify the act by which au individual informs a public officer, whose duty it is to prosecute offenders, that a crime has been committed. It differs from a complaint. (q.v.) Vide 1 Bro. C. L. 447; 2 Id. 389; Ayl. Parer. of basic Catholic traditions. People who live only for today, who are oblivious of their debt to the past and their obligations to contribute to a better tomorrow, are narcissistic nar·cis·sism also nar·cism n. 1. Excessive love or admiration of oneself. See Synonyms at conceit. 2. A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in , ungrateful, and visionless. That this song by the anti-Christian and anti-Catholic John Lennon should be played at a Catholic institution displays the damage done by teachers who know neither their Catholic religion nor their pop stars. Back in an interview with the London Evening Standard in March 1966. Lennon boasted: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're (the Beatles) more popular than Jesus now...." Lennon's paean Paean (pē`ən), Paean was an epithet for Apollo, the healer. The paean, a hymn of praise to Apollo and often to other gods, was sung as a prayer for safety or deliverance at battles and other important occasions. to peace is in reality an invitation to death and he, Lennon, an architect of the culture of death. |
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