Noto Bishop Antonio Staglianò, Sicily, praised on OsservatoreRomano.va (September 4), the John-Lennon song “Imagine,” saying that it “poetically reconfigures a new world” which - “without exaggeration”- is in line with the “magisterium of Fratelli tutti.”
An accomplished pop-singer and guitar player (“inventor of Pop Theology”), Staglianò has been singing “Imagine” for Christmas to his diocese because “Jesus too would have sung this song with conviction.”
The problem: The song starts with the words “imagine there’s no heaven” and later adds “and no religion, too.”
But this is no problem for Staglianò because “one must deny a paradise for which one kills and dies” – although there is no word about such a “paradise” in Lennon’s song.
Staglianò trivialises atheism by claiming that it is “a denial of a false God-idol that even Christians should deny (a God for whom to kill and make wars, 'because God wants it').” He should tell this to the millions of Christians murdered by militant atheists. …More