Monday Godbytes: Cee Lo Re-Imagines “Imagine”; Downloadable Forgiveness; Priestly Broom

Ah, New Years Eve. A time for revelry, resolutions, and twitter controversies involving John Lennon, Cee Lo Green and atheists. Long story short: several folks are miffed at singer Cee Lo Green for changing a lyric in John Lennon’s “Imagine” while performing on New Year’s Eve in Times Square. He reportedly tweaked the line “nothing […]

Ah, New Years Eve. A time for revelry, resolutions, and twitter controversies involving John Lennon, Cee Lo Green and atheists.

Long story short: several folks are miffed at singer Cee Lo Green for changing a lyric in John Lennon’s “Imagine” while performing on New Year’s Eve in Times Square. He reportedly tweaked the line “nothing to kill or die for / and no religion too” to say “nothing to kill or die for / and all religion’s true.”

Lennon fans were pretty incensed, reportedly leading to several heated twitter exchanges with Cee Lo (which have since been deleted).


But Lennon fans aren’t the only ones upset – atheists are downright frustrated too. “The Friendly Atheist” blogger Hemant Mehta has his own post on the subject, and social news website Reddit has logged thousands of frustrated comments about the controversy thus far.

Forgive me father, for I have downloaded: There was a lot of talk earlier this (last?) year about the Catholic “Confession” iPhone app, mostly because folks didn’t expect it to do well. Instead, the Globe and Daily Mail reports that it and other faith-based apps actually did really, really well this (dangit – LAST) year.

There has been a lot of back-and-forth about Judaism and the Occupy movement. Consequently, Tablet Magazine adds its own voice to the fray, asking “How Jewish Is Occupy Wall Street?

Your Tweet of the Day comes from Jesus Needs New PR, who offers a novel solution for folks who attended church yesterday (post-New Years Eve):

Finally, your Video of the Day (which you have to click the link for – you can do it, I believe in you) involves some religious folks who got a little too “swept up” into an argument…You know, folks who started to preach a little too much “gloom and broom” …See, they took “wipe away sins” a little too literally…

Alright, fine: it’s a video of a bunch of priests in Israel beating each other with brooms.


You’re welcome.

Image courtesy Julio Enrequiez via wikimedia commons and Flickr.

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