Why did John Lennon imagine a wonderful world with no religion?

Lennon was an atheist. He should have trusted in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior (but not religion)...then he would be in the presence of Jesus Christ right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNa7AcpHtA4&t=156s

Lennon was atheist He believed that religion was a great divider of people and produced much hatred in the world.

Because, whether god exist or not, religions divides us. This division caused conflicts and sufferings. John Lennon recognized this division and called it as it is.

Just true Love for everyone .

Lennon was a known wife-beater. Religion frowns on that. Lennon imagined a wonderful world where religion didn't stop him.

Because it wasn't hard to do.

No one knows what's in the mind of a poet.

I find the song amusing: a guy rolling in the dough singing about no possessions and no money. Talk about hypocrisy!

Differences in various religions have been the basis of many wars. Example: During WWII, Hitler considered Jews to be a pestilence that needed to be eradicated based only on their religion.

Because he believed that the harm religion has done to humanity outweighs the good

Mark Shea wrote a great commentary about "Imagine"

"That is why, I'm convinced, a song as stupid as "Imagine" by John Lennon can still be regarded by millions as both profound and moving to the degree that it is the Number Three Greatest Song Ever according to Rolling Stone. You can see imbeciles swaying to this tune, eyes closed in beatific bliss, at everything from school assemblies to soccer matches to September 11 commemorations. How does it honor the dead to "Imagine there's no heaven"? How does it honor the firefighters who sacrificed their lives to mewl about "Nothing to … die for"? Indeed, it is even sung by earnest churchgoer swho seem to perceive no particular contradiction between the liberating wonder of imagining there's no Heaven and the prayer which begins "Our Father who art in heaven." It seems to be because the words of the song are more or less treated as sonorous replacements for singing "La La" to its pleasant tune.

It's no coincidence that "Imagine" similarly dreams of a prison planet of contented cows where there is "above us only sky." For me, it's one of the agitprop songs they play over the concentration camp speakers non-stop in order to keep the inmates minds off the hope of both Heaven and hope.

"Imagine" solves the problem of suffering by euthanizing the soul. Like Homer Simpson, it concludes that the lesson to be learned from humanity's long struggle with transcendent Hope is, "Don't hope." It counsels us to abandon dreams of heaven and even the schoolyard impulse to defend the weak from a bully. It is the song of H.G. Wells' Eloi, the National Anthem of the Bureaucratic World State where the herd are all comfortably numb, having been lobotomized of those troubling transcendent desires that have, for too long, made Caesar's job of conditioning the masses so problematic. As we move closer to finally domesticating the human animal and training him to keep his mind entirely on the bread and circuses of this world, I, for one, hope that someday you will not join them and the world (which lieth in the power of the Evil One) will not be one."

http://www.mark-shea.com/imagine.html