I was re-reading the essay in The Beatles and Philosophy that I am reviewing for the assignment when a certain line caught my eye. The essay is about Marxism and the Beatles, and the specific paragraph I was reading was talking about Marx's take on religion and how it relates to John Lennon's song "Imagine".
"Furthermore, when Lennon asks us to imagine no religion, he further reiterates Marx's efforts to counter religious ideologies that divert human conciousness from unjust socio-economic realities with promise of divine rewards in the hereafter."
This sentence screamed "Puritans!" all over to me. Of course, there are many reasons for the Puritans' religious fanaticism, and the "unjust socio-economic realities" of their original home in England and then their adopted home in America is definately a contributer. The Puritans had to go to so much trouble just to survive in the early days of their American settlement that would have driven their already extreme faith to new levels.
-Audrey
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It's interesting how Marxism and Puritans can relate, since they're very opposite religiously and ideologically. But socio-economic reasons underly much of the world we live in and can certainly tie the two together. -- tori
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