Tunesmith: "Finally, did God inspire John Lennon to write the atheist anthem "Imagine"!"

Maybe the atheists adopted it, because of the line, ...
"Imagine there is no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too"

Well I can't say that I believe in 'religion', either....but that doesn't make me an atheist...now does it?...nor does it void out what Beethoven was referring to, that even the contemporary 'religions' of his time, even had a clue about...

You said, "Beethoven was great musician and he worked extremely hard at his art. That is where his "inspiration" came from."

You missed it completely...What INSPIRED him to do that?..to bust his balls to be penniless most the time for the music???...SOMETHING must have impressed him!!!?? You think has was reading some Bach sheets, and said, "Gosh I could do better than that!....maybe if only he did 'this' instead of 'that'...."

Where did his imagination come from?? What even more did he hear that he didn't capture...What sparked it??....and unless you can do what he did, and claim otherwise, who would you expect to be believed?

To quote Dylan, "Don't criticize what you don't understand...."

He said, "The vibrations on the air...."...If he was talking about actual sound, he would have said, "I hear sounds, in the air..."..but 'vibrations ON the air' has rather different connotations, including things that were not known then...but are known now.
Perhaps he WAS tuned into something, that a lot of people don't tune into, because they have their antennas up their ass!..and then the say, "Fresh air doesn't exist!"
Now actually, that IS a fair analogy...also if you are talking about common misconceptions between God, as a life giving force, and 'Religion', as a life taking farce'

...and unless you're in his shoes, I don't think you can speak for him, especially when the politics of the day, are certainly perception altering!

Fair enough?

GfS