ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL PEALS OUT LENNON'S ATHEISTIC SONG (Friday Church News Notes, May 22, 2009, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The
bells of the Anglican Cathedral of Liverpool pealed out John Lennon's atheistic song "Imagine" three times on May 16. A spokesperson for the
cathedral said, "We feel this performance has inspired many people to think about their relationship with God in their lives" ("Imagine
That," The Daily Mail, May 17, 2009). Indeed, many members of the Anglican Church have no problem imagining with Lennon that there is no heaven or hell.
In 1994, it was reported by the Sunday Times (July 31) that at least 100 Anglican priests are atheists who do not believe in "an external, supernatural
God." In 1996, the doctrinal commission of the Church of England said hell is not a place of fire and eternal torment, and Episcopal Bishop John Spong
wrote in his paper that the image of God in the Bible is "no longer operative" (ENI, Dec. 6, 1996). In September 2008, the Church of England
officially apologized to Charles Darwin for rejecting his theory of evolution ("Church Makes 'Ludicrous' Apology," The Daily Mail, Sept. 13,
2008). John Lennon was anti-christ. His book A Spaniard in the Works portrayed Jesus as El Pifico, a "garlic eating, stinking little yellow, greasy
fascist ****** Catholic Spaniard." In this wicked book, Lennon further blasphemed the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In the song "I Found Out,"
Lennon sang, "There ain't no Jesus gonna come from the sky," and in his song "God," he said, "I don't believe in Bible. I
don't believe in Jesus. I just believe in me." In an interview with a British newspaper Lennon defined God in these words: "All the energy is
God. Your own energy and their energy, whether doing god-like things or ungodly things" (The Daily Sketch, Oct. 9, 1967). Lennon and Yoko Ono were heavily
involved in occultism. The books Hellhounds on Their Trail by Gary Patterson, Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon by Robert Rosen, and Lennon in America
by Geoffrey Giuliano describe how the Lennons purchased entire sections of occult literature in bookstores, consulted tarot cards, astrologers, and psychics,
learned how to cast spells, sought magical power from Egyptian artifacts, and believed in reincarnation.
