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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!mikel
- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Atheism in pop culture
- Message-ID: <77333@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 06:07:05 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.184622.10774@cs.ucla.edu>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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- In article <1993Jan21.184622.10774@cs.ucla.edu> pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) writes:
- >Somebody sent me the words for John Lennon's hit song "Imagine". Lennon
- >and his song are before "my time", but they seem to hint at atheism.
- >Was he an atheist?
-
- Yes.
-
- >Can you think of any examples of explicit atheism expressed in pop
- >songs or other pop culture works?
-
- One of my favorites is a John Lennon song from "Plastic Ono Band", his
- first post-Beatles album (which, although it is not a Beatles album,
- is my favorite 'Beatles' album). I reproduce its lyrics here for
- your enjoyment.
-
- God
-
- God is a concept
- By which we measure our pain
- I'll say it again
- God is a concept
- By which we measure our pain
- I don't believe in magic
- I don't believe in I-Ching
- I don't believe in Bible
- I don't believe in Tarot
- I don't believe in Hitler
- I don't believe in Jesus
- I don't believe in Kennedy
- I don't believe in Buddha
- I don't believe in Mantra
- I don't believe in Gita
- I don't believe in Yoga
- I don't believe in Kings
- I don't believe in Elvis
- I don't believe in Zimmerman
- I don't believe in Beatles
- I just believe in me
- Yoko and me
- And that's reality
-
- The dream is over
- What can I say?
- The dream is over
- Yesterday
- I was the dreamweaver
- But now I'm reborn
- I was the walrus
- But now I'm John
- The dream is over
-