Cee Lo Green criticized for changing 'Imagine' lyrics

Cee Lo Green criticized for changing 'Imagine' lyrics

January 4, 2012 at 5:41PM

Pop star Cee Lo Green is still catching heat from John Lennon fans and others for changing the lyrics to Lennon's "Imagine" while performing the iconic song live on television in New York's Time Square Saturday night.

Instead of "Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too," Green sang, "Nothing to kill or die for, and all religion's true."

Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of "God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World," is a regular CNN Belief Blog contributor and had some interesting thoughts on the controversy:

Prothero continues:

What do you think? Should Green have changed the lyrics?



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