The "Imagine" Controversy

Oh dearest me.

It takes a very special kind of society to get upset over a lyrical change, especially when most people don't seem to understand it. When Cee-Lo Green (one of my favourite artists, by the way, so if you're not expecting bias I warn you there is inevitably going to be) covered John Lennon's "Imagine", he managed to change the lyrics from "and no religion too" to "and all religion is true". Now I'm not going to go on the merits of the change of lyrics, but more the response, which was thoroughly hilarious. A rather vocal (but I hope to all Heavens small) portion of the Atheist community proceeded to explode over this and proclaim various things, like:

"This is SO WRONG! You wonder why free thinkers are so vocal with their rights being violated... this IDIOT is one reason why!! He took not only the intellectual property of Lennon's and made it his rubbish but stole the whole meaning of the song to push his TERRORISTIC RELIGIOUS BULL SHIT on the world... as usual with a NO BRAIN HAVING SHEEP! Hell with our freedoms right?? We get called bigots as you play with your imaginary friends & destroy the world... YOU ARE PATHETIC!!"

Of course, this is in the complete minority (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/01/01/thats-not-how-the-song-goes-cee-lo/ for a more complete picture of what was going on -- you'll see someone did tell him to calm down)

I don't know if the changing of a lyric warrants that regardless of what it changes. Still, seeing people completely freak out over this is rather hilarious to say the least.

Barely conscious

So Christmas and New Years have come and gone and I'm just kind of floating through life at the moment. Lots of food at Christmas and lots of drink at New Years but not a lot of thought. I'm hoping to get back in that.