No. Lennon is INTOLERANT of religion. He sees the idea of an afterlife as destabilizing a potential utopia in THIS life. His final solution is to get rid of religion and such nasty scary ideas as Heaven and Hell (and patriotism "...it bannishes fear with the speed of a flame..."). The ideas he presented in his song stand in opposition and competition to those of any and all relgions. I would like to say that his vision of peace is about as appealing as being a stock of broccoli but even plants in their own way compete for resources and reproductive rights. Life is what it is. We all strive to better our condition in some way but Utopians as well as some religious zealots who think the abolition of all other points of view is the way to ultimate peace only bring about the kind of peace you find in a graveyard.

Whatever you are willing to die for demonstrates the highest esteem (see above). The American State religion (if you will) says that this is freedom and democracy. Many hundreds of thousands of the best and brightest of America have agreed and paid the ultimate sacrifice for those ideals. In so doing we have secured, imperfect as it may be, a degree of liberty for our citizens and many others around the world. Those ideals have roots in the Judeo-Christian religions as well as in the Hellenic philosophical and political heritage. Your freedom to agree with John Lennon was bought and paid for in blood. Had it not been, such a discussion as this would not even be taking place, let alone it's being in German. I'd be shot and you'd watched VERY closely for daring to have thoughts you believed to be your own!