Just imagine

The Independent reports that the Church of England will ring out the tune of John Lennon's anthem "Imagine", from the bells of Liverpool Cathedral this summer.

The song with the lyrics:-

Imagine there's no heaven,

It's easy if you try,

No hell below us,

Above us only sky...

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Such hypocrisy but should we be surprised ? The Church of England and The Church of Rome ( and all other churches) will endeavour to do anything to retain their popularity and remain institutions of influence and power .

James Connolly had this to say about the matter

"...the man who imagines that in the supreme hour of the proletarian struggle for victory the Church will definitely line up with the forces of capitalism, and pledge her very existence as a Church upon the hazardous chance of the capitalists winning, simply does not understand the first thing about the policy of the Church in the social or political revolutions of the past. Just as in Ireland the Church denounced every Irish revolutionary movement in its day of activity, as in 1798, 1848 and 1867, and yet allowed its priests to deliver speeches in eulogy of the active spirits of those movements a generation afterwards, so in the future the Church, which has its hand close upon the pulse of human society, when it realises that the cause of capitalism is a lost cause it will find excuse enough to allow freedom of speech and expression to those lowly priests whose socialist declarations it will then use to cover and hide the absolute anti-socialism of the Roman Propaganda. When that day comes the Papal Encyclical against socialism will be conveniently forgotten by the Papal historians, and and the socialist utterances, of the von Kettelers, the McGlynns, and McGradys will be heralded forth and the communistic utterances of the early fathers as proofs of Catholic sympathy with progressive ideas. Thus it has been in the past. Thus it will be..."