Catholic miseducation.

Waterloo, ON -- Recently St. David's Catholic school celebrated Remembrance Day. The celebration included a John Lennon song entitled Imagine as a way of honouring those brave soldiers who fought and died for the freedom we now enjoy. The lyrics 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 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 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, 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 to peace is in reality an invitation to death and he, Lennon, an architect of the culture of death.