Lennon's politics were wrong. However, his intuitive take on Christianity was probably spot on the money. Atheism and skepticism in general are on the rise, a refreshing trend, indeed.

Your first two posts are at odds with your most recent, in my view. Further, I think you misuse the word "hyperbole." Further, Lennon didn't vanish or shrink, as a cult might. Rather, he was murdered, in a horrific hail of gunfire that had nothing whatever to do with his religious views.

And you piously quote a Bible verse to round out the idiocy. Do you think the Bible is the first text to examine pride and its relation to virtue? Let me offer a clue: The Bible, indeed the whole concept of Christ, is derivative.

Hyperbole means "an obvious or intentional exaggeration." Can you explain, please, how anything in your original post qualifies as being this particular literary device. Firstly, if it's "obvious," I seriously doubt I would've missed it. Oh, but wait, I don't fawn over the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, therefore I'm not smart enough to detect even the obvious. So sorry.

You wrote: "If my history is correct, Lennon was the one to 'go,' to 'vanish and shrink.' And the assassin's bullet caused him to be the one to 'go first.'

'Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.' 1 Corinthians 10:12"

In my original post I never mentioned that God killed Lennon. I never made that connection and don't intend to. You made that up and reacted to a straw man. I simply meant that with the way things sometimes happen in this universe, making statements about the demise of a particular religion and the thickness of all its followers as an ENTERTAINER–not a philosopher or historian or religious scholar–might appear to posterity as a bit of a jackass thing to do for yourself. Me as a Christian siccing God on my enemies was something you wanted to believe motivated my post. Not so.
We leave the fatwas to that other religion.

Being killed by some loony assassin is quite tragic, and it doesn't make me happy.

If I believed in Zeus or Apollo or Odin or any of the literally THOUSANDS of gods that people have worshipped over the milennia, you would call me crazy. I call all of you crazy. And don't come at me with "well, why don't you try to prove there is NOT a god?". I know, you can't prove a negative. But I'm not the one making an outlandish claim based on books written by people (anonymous people, I might add, and edited centuries later by monks and priests who had a vested interest in people falling for the whole ruse) who didn't know 1/1,000,000th of what we know now through the efforts of science and rational thought.

I piss on all of your gods. Enough with respecting these childish and harmful beliefs.

Who else do you think needs to be killed? We could all pray to our God of love, to see if He'll play with some retard's mind and send him (or her) on a mission to take care of our fellow citizen.

Sad face