Harper Singing Imagine Is the Hypocritical Photo of the Election

John Lennon’s Imagine is a blatantly hypocritical campaign sing-a-long for Canada’s gun-toting, war monger, right wing Prime Minister.

Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

John Lennon’s vision of a world based on love, peace and the end of religious bigotry is the complete opposite of Stephen Harper’s Reform / Conservative dream of back-to-the-bible, Canadian government.

Don’t get me wrong. I believe in the bible and freedom of religion. I just don’t believe one man’s religion should be the basis for public policy.

Yesterday Prime Minister Stephen Harper dropped in for a photo op with Maria Aragon in Winnipeg. Maria is the young singing sensation who covers Lady Gaga.

Will anyone remember the silliness of Harper singing against ever moral fiber in his body? Will we think he is cute and cuddly next to a child?

Lady Gaga is not on Harper’s agenda. Too much sexuality and over the top freedom for the button-down bible thumper.

Harper didn’t know any Lady Gaga tunes.

How about The Beatles? asks Harper harking back to the “good old days.”

They settled on Imagine which must have made Harper squirm. The left-leaning dream of a world that has thrown off thousands of years of hatred and prejudice is not Stephen Harper’s dream.

I spent the first 30 years of my life among right wing Protestants. I know how they think. They think John Lennon is the anti-Christ.

Harper would like to put all the gay, lesbian, activist female, abortionist, and left thinking Canadians back in a box. Then Harper and his right wing cronies can buy more fighter jets. They will have cleaned up Canada with missionary zeal.

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

Sharing, brotherhood, greed and hunger – wow that will be great.

We must be going to see a Conservative platform that turns ammunition into social supports for the poor, the disabled, and the disenfranchised.

“They shall beat their swords into plowshares,” Isaiah prophesied about Jesus. “Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” (Isaiah 2:4)

Canada has gone from being a country of peacemakers to being willing partners in international wars of dubious value. Afghanistan and Libya are not World War II, saving us from the Fascists.

Harper wants $30 billion for fighter jets but pennies for the poor.

The irony of all this is that John Lennon was actually imagining the utopian world of Jesus Christ.

Jesus told the rich man to give all his money to the poor. He told Peter to put down his sword and live by peace. Jesus promised a Paradise where men and women would live in perfect harmony and love.

The Christian view of Stephen Harper is a little meaner than the one imagined by Christ and Lennon.

Harper wants his moral minority to have it all. The the rest of us heathens can make it on our own.

Prime Minister Harper is free to sing any song he likes. Maybe Harper will repent of his mean and evil ways.

One has to believe in the eternal opportunity for repentance and forgiveness for everyone, so we do for Stephen Harper.

In the meantime, I don’t believe him.

With story from the Edmonton Journal

By Stephen Pate, NJN Network