As I posted over on the RD, a movie, by Mel, on the Maccabees would be great. And I can certainly understand his disgust with Lennon's "Imagine there was no heaven/religion" secular, humanist bullshit. Of course, thinking that way doesn't mean Lennon deserved to get shot. Though Mel probably didn't mean it literally.
Maybe he wasn't literal either when he (allegedly) called that Hollywood insider a "Jew [BadWord]"?
And maybe I'm not literal either when I call him an asshole?
(The dismissive word you and Mel are looking for with "Imagine" isn't "messianic" but "pretentious." Of all of Lennon's personal misdeeds, and he had quite a few, that's the least of them.)
