Re: hard lennonade

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Dan Temmesfeld wrote:

> > If Lennon was merely saying "Why can't we all get along?", that would
> > be one thing.  But no, he takes an explicitly anti-religious stance --
> > which is, in its own way, a religious stance in and of itself.
>
> i don't think he was anti-religious, but rather anti-people telling him
> what to do and to think.

So he told *other* people what to do and to think?  Hmmm.

> there's a big difference.  just because someone says "don't keep shoving
> your Jesus/Mohammed/Buddha down my throat," it doesn't mean that they
> are anti-religious.

But saying "no religion too" would certainly qualify.

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