living for today

Today we had an exercise in imagination (related to a really good book - Becoming a Pastor by Jaco Hamman) where we listened to "Imagine" by John Lennon. When it came to the stuff about imagining no heaven and hell, and no religion too, and imagining "all the people living for today," there was an interesting divergence. One of my colleagues imagined disorder--people lost and drinking and debauchery. I imagined peace, mindfulness, and cooperation. It hinges on the idea of "living for today." it made me realize that i can't imagine a world without religion. let me rephrase that...i can't imagine a world without spirituality, a world where people don't seek to make spiritual sense of the world, where people don't explore mysteries and tap into something larger than themselves. i suppose John Lennon meant "no religion" in the sense of "no divisions where we have war about whose God is right." he probably also had some reaction (maybe hives) against moralism and legalism in religion. so when he says "no religion" i imagine people still seeking meaning and seeing sacredness in life itself, in relationships, in life experience itself. My colleague imagines a world that needs to be saved. I wonder who's right, anyway.