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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5008132" data-attributes="member: 4937">Just for the record, if you ask a Christian if anyone is an evil person regardless of who that person is, they'll say, "Yes."  This is because only God alone is good, and all Men are fallen creatures, etc.  So yeah, John Lennon is a an evil person (Christians perfer the term 'sinner'), just like me.As for the song, I find it very evil and disturbing, which frankly isn't surprising considering that it was written by a clearly confused hurting and hurtful adulterous drug-addled violent homophobic drunken self-centered cynical depressed sarcastic misanthrope who abandoned his friends and his wife and spent the latter years of his life wildly flailing around looking for something with meaning.  I wish he'd found it before someone murdered him.  His is a great human tragedy.  I find the song a strange mixture of niave and nihilistic.  Niave because it imagines, as I don't, that the source of evil in the world is something other than human behavior and tries to lay the blame for what we do at someone elses feet. Nihilistic because it really isn't hard to imagine a world with no countries, no religion, no possessions, and nothing to live for.  You just go somewhere like rural Sudan or Somalia and you see exactly what such a world would be like.  The greed and hunger of the world is not created by the religions or the nations or anything else.  It's us.  Take everything else away and the greed and hunger remains.</blockquote>

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