{"id":4129,"date":"2009-05-10T23:25:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T03:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2009-05-10T23:25:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T03:25:42","slug":"imagine-theres-no-anglican-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/imagine-theres-no-anglican-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine there\u2019s no Anglican Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reverse psychology evangelism from Liverpool<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The bells of Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral are to ring out to John Lennon’s anti-religious anthem Imagine.<\/p>\n

The bells will play the 1971 song, which begins “Imagine there’s no Heaven”, as part of an arts festival on 16 May at 1200, 1230 and 1330 BST.<\/p>\n

A cathedral spokesman said: “Allowing Imagine to be pealed on our bells does not mean we agree with the song lyric.”<\/p>\n

The song has drawn criticism from some religious figures as Lennon himself has called the anthem “anti-religious”.<\/p>\n

Liverpool Cathedral said it had carefully considered the “sensitivities” surrounding the song’s lyrical content.<\/p>\n

“But we recognise its power to make us think. As a cathedral we do not shrink from debate. We recognise the existence of other world views,” added the cathedral spokesman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This, of course, opens a whole new technique for evangelism in the 21st<\/sup> century: you make the atheist\u2019s case for them instead of the case for Christ – to make people think. I wonder why no-none thought of that before. I expect Liverpool Cathedral helped pay for the atheist bus advertisements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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