"Lennon stated: “‘Imagine’, which says: ‘Imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics,’ is virtually The Communist Manifesto, even though I’m not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement.’ [10] He told NME: “There is no real Communist state in the world; you must realise that. The Socialism I speak about ... [is] not the way some daft Russian might do it, or the Chinese might do it. . ."
"I was surprised, if not shocked, when two A-list celebrities, country singers Garth Brooks and his wife Trisha Yearwood, took the microphones at the State Funeral for Jimmy Carter yesterday and began performing “Imagine,” written by former Beatle John Lennon in 1971. The song is widely described as an “atheistic anthem” and incredibly is said to be one of the late 39th president’s favorite songs." . . .
. . ."The employment of, in my opinion, this questionable song as the coda of the Carters’ careers is a fitting close of the circle to what I have known about Jimmy Carter since very early on. As I detailed in my blog published at American Thinker on December 30, 2024, the day after Jimmy Carter died, I covered Carter’s campaign for the White House in 1976 and his inauguration as the president of the United States in 1977. In those early years before the hagiography surrounding his presidency and his decades as an ex-president was firmly established, I saw and photographed Carter on many different occasions, public and private. More often than not, he came across as an angry, arrogant, and condescending man, contemptuous of his staff and reporters – not at all like the media’s portrayal of him as a “grinning Georgian” deeply imbued with Christian values."
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