Reply To: Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry

@Strega

I know one major group here that really, really REALLY REALLY loves “Imagine,” a song which I’ve become sick of through repetition in their podcasts.

Always look on the bright side is much more entertaining, a lot less cloying, and I’ve seen it sung at counter-counter-protests. I believe an impromptu chorus treated Westboro Baptist to it at the Reason Rally. (I didn’t see Westboro Baptist there, they were kept away from the other Xians because even most Xians loathe them.) Also it got sung at a Muslim protest at an Australian atheist conference.

Unfortunately, I don’t recall its lyrics being overtly atheist; it just came from a movie that was…well, actually even Life of Brian makes a nod to the Xian nativity fable at the beginning, as the wise men realize their mistake and run off to the correct address, illuminated by divine light.

I wonder if the targets of these serenades ever wonder just what the fuck it is we are singing at them and why. Unless they actually exposed themselves to that film (which they’ve probably been warned away from), the relevance must be lost on them.