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.)
I used the words that I think apply to Lennon and which annoy the hell out of me. He was a celebrity. Pretentiousness comes with the territory. It was the secular/humanist message in the song "Imagine" that rubs me the wrong way.
And I freely admit Mel can be an asshole. Especially when he's drunk.
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