The late former President Jimmy Carter reportedly held the 1971 John Lennon hit “Think about” as his favourite tune. However its use as a tune at his state funeral ceremony has set a firestorm on social media from critics saying it wasn’t match to be used in what in a memorial service in a Christian church.
On Thursday, the tune was carried out by fellow Georgian Trisha Yearwood and her husband Garth Brooks throughout Carter’s Washington Nationwide Cathedral funeral service. One yr earlier, Brooks and Yearwood carried out it at former first girl Rosalynn Carter’s wake, as effectively. The nation star couple beforehand labored with Carter on a number of Habitat for Humanity dwelling initiatives, in accordance with reviews.
Social media lit up later Thursday, calling into query the efficiency of the tune, given its lyrical rejection of faith.
“Think about there’s no heaven / It’s simple in case you strive / No Hell under us / Above us, solely sky,” the primary line goes.
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Former President Jimmy Carter. (Emma Woodhead/Fox Digital)
On X, a number of observers, together with prime conservative figures, questioned using the tune, whereas others differed.
“Having Joe Biden lecture us about what a powerful Christian Jimmy Carter was earlier than the group sits via ‘Think about’ with the lyrics ‘Think about there’s no heaven /It’s simple in case you strive’ makes me query the authenticity of the assertion,” stated commentator Erick Erickson, who additionally served on the Macon Metropolis Council in Carter’s dwelling state.
“Think about there isn’t a heaven — Sung for somebody who’s a religious Southern Baptist,” one X consumer added.
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“I don’t assume Jimmy would recognize the ‘no faith’ half,” one other stated.
Self-described “Trumpocrat” Steve Carlson, a perennial Minnesota Democratic candidate now working for governor in 2026, wrote that it’s an “insult” to have “Think about” performed at Carter’s funeral.
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“Why would any Christian have that sung at their funeral? Imagining there isn’t a heaven and no Christianity at a Christian funeral is darkish, certainly,” stated Mollie Z. Hemingway, Federalist editor and frequent “All-Star Panel”-ist on Fox Information’ “Particular Report with Bret Baier.”
A distinguished member of the Catholic clergy additionally chimed in on X, saying he was “appalled” by the efficiency.
“Below the hovering vault of what I feel remains to be a Christian church, they reverently intoned, ‘Think about there’s no heaven; it’s simple in case you strive” and “think about there’s no nation; it isn’t exhausting to do. Nothing to kill or die for, and no faith too.’ — Vested ministers sat patiently whereas a hymn to atheistic humanism was sung,” stated Bishop Robert Barron, prelate of the Catholic Archdiocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota.
“This was not solely an insult to the reminiscence of a devoutly believing Christian but additionally an indicator of the spinelessness of an excessive amount of of established faith in our nation,” the bishop stated.
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The Nationwide Assessment’s Jim Geraghty stated the very fact “Think about” asks the listener to think about the absence of heaven is a “de facto concession” that it exists, in an obvious protection of the rendition.
“In any other case, there could be no have to ask us to examine in any other case,” Geraghty stated.
Lennon himself had a sophisticated view of Christianity and arranged faith, however notably corresponded with Christian preachers like Oral Roberts.
“I used to be introduced up a Christian and I solely now perceive among the issues that Christ was saying in these parables,” Lennon additionally has been quoted as saying. “God is an idea by which we measure our personal ache.”
