Religious music for less than devout

@pfeiffer It seems to me that Imagine is the antithesis of religious music since he is asking us to imagine what it is like with no god, no religion. I've always liked it as a song. I never liked the assumption that things would somehow be better if there was no god. 

Another song along those lines (which I also like) is Joan Osborne's song What If God was One of Us. Like Imagine there seems to be an irony that the artist completely missed.

Osborne says:

What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryin' to make his way home?

To a Christian these lyrics are a little shocking. Not because they are somehow blasphemous but because what she is asking for and looking for is exactly what Jesus was. According to Christian theology Jesus was God and also one of us. A stranger. Poor. Common. Probably filthy and hungry most of the time.

I always wondered if Osborne was aware of this irony. 

All Things Must Pass

U2 - All I Want Is You
and for the more devout
Mercy Me - I Can Only Imagine

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Your thoughts are exactly to what Lennon may have been referring. Imagine there is no God, capital G. Turn the whole concept of all knowing all powerful right on its head. 

Here’s a surprise to many. "After Forever" , Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSF3HviqlPk


Lyrics

https://genius.com/Black-sabbath-after-forever-lyrics