John Lennons Imagine Anyone who has heard the song cannot help but stop and hum the tune as they read these words, and even hear Lennons voice in the words.especially after sitting through the daily news and wondering when all the strife will end. A world without killing and all the world living as one thats the dream isnt it ? Who can take issue with that? And nothing could have been more instrumental in killing the dream then the senseless killing of Lennon himself at the hands of an assassin. English journalist Steve Turner writes of Lennons brief struggle with Christianity, a struggle that his wife, Yoko, strongly influenced him against and toward magical stones and astrology instead. Isnt it interesting that no astrologer was able to warn him and protect him from that fateful? Just because Lennon could imagine such a world doesnt mean that it exists, or that there is any chance of it existing. Just because he wanted to believe in such a world didnt make it real, even for him. An here is the contradiction: He imagined a pure world without any ultimate reason for life and destiny. He amputated accountability but wished for a world of responsibility. Thats the privilege of music .it doesnt have to justify its flawed reasoning. Fame, fortunes and adulation are generally based on measurements that serve only to disfigure reality and make the imagination king over common sense. Common sense out to tell us that there is no guarantee that a person with a gifted voice and musical genius is any better a person than someone who cannot sing or write music. Common sense out to tell us that a world without heaven or hell in the future generally leads to one or the other in this world. But a gifted voice and an errant imagination can angle a lie to fit into the world view one wants to believe. Ravi Zacharius, Why Jesus Rediscovering His Truth In An Age of Mass Marketed Sprituality 2012