SIEGFRIED'S INVITATION: IMAGINE THERE'S NO HEAVEN...

I will finish my remarks with an invitation. You like invitations - you're Billy Graham, evangelistic types. I will not, however, give an altar call, nor will I pray for you.

The invitation was penned by a songwriter from the last generation - John Lennon. And it goes like this: "Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try. No hell below us. Above us only sky... Imagine all the people, living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. Maybe someday you'll join us. And our world will be as one."

I would invite you to do this... though I'm not holding my breath. And I have a flight to catch. So, good night.

Before getting to God the egomaniacal child abuser, I'd like to spend just a moment on Siegfried's appeal to John Lennon's Imagine.

The numbers range from 55 to 80 million people - combatants and non - died in World War Two or as a result of disease or famine associated with the war. 94 to 110 million died in the 20th Century under communist governments - Russia, China, North Korea, southeast Asia.

Wouldn't it have made a difference if Stalin had thought there was a Heaven above him or a Hell below him? And that he would be held accountable for what he'd done and was doing at the time? Wouldn't it have made a difference if Mao or Pol Pot thought they'd be held accountable for the millions who died under their regimes? These dictators killed as many if not more of their own citizens than died in all theatres of WWII combined - military and civilian. And every one of these leaders were atheists.

No - a world that loses its sense of a Heaven above and a Hell below is not a world where everyone lives in peace... unless you're a dreamer. A world that loses its sense of a Heaven above and a Hell below is a world where the gloves have come off, and where all restraints have been removed. It's a world where the strong devour the weak... with impunity. And then destroy each other. It is Hell on earth, make no mistake.