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The Paris Olympics and Lennon’s “Imagine”
“It’s ironic given the goddess imagery used and the sacrilegious mockery of the Last Supper in one tableaux that one of the main pieces of music chosen was ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon. That’s right, just after the countries of the world had been paraded, named and celebrated with flag waving, we heard the lyric ‘imagine there’s no countries.’” That seems strange, doesn’t it?
“’What’s wrong with the world?’ someone asks. Many explanations are on offer: economic turmoil, moral collapse, political extremism. Certainly these are things that are going wrong. But are they ‘what’s wrong with the world’? Why is there turmoil? Why is there moral collapse? Why do we all run to our corners?” Alistair Begg answers well.
Gary Hallquist: “Affliction is not something anyone desires, but that does not mean we don’t need it. The truth is that affliction is a God-appointed tool to
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