I think you missed the point... I at least understood that the song was about breaking barriers that divide people, barriers that can be political or cultural. Also the bit about "no heaven" and "no hell" can be understood as no need to devide people between good or bad, but because we wouldn't need it, we wouldn't need countries, religion or anything, merely because the union would mean that we don't need to worry about those things, I also understood the "no heaven" bit as meaning that we wouldn't need to dream about heaven because Earth would be a paradise, or a heaven itself.
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No, I'm sorry G_L, Lennon has gone on record as he being literally anti-religion and anti-countries. He speaks of a world where the human race can live as just the human race, like a sci-fi planet or something. No countries whatsoever, no religion, no borders dividing the world.
IT'S PLAIN AS DAY IN THE LYRICS, DAMMIT
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Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
He was ALWAYS against the idea of people having to die for something. See? No religion too.[/quote]
What exactly would be "anti-countries"?[/quote]
um, the part that says "Imagine there's no countries"?[/quote]
Okay, let rephrase the question: How exactly was Lennon Anti-countries? What did he had agaisnt them? What reasons made him put "no countries" in that song? It is because he hates authority in general or because he see countries as a way to dividing people?[/QUOTE]
Both. It's the ultimate socialist hippie ideal. It all works great in theory, but in practice, humans are stupid selfish animals and it will never really work.