Posted on 07/29/2019 4:43:12 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
With one sentence, John Lennon changed The Beatles’ prospects in the United States.
In March 1966, the renowned singer sat down for an interview with The London Evening Standard.
“We’re more popular than Jesus now,” Lennon said during the interview.
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The sentence alone appears to compare the band’s fame to Christ. But in full context, Lennon wasn’t attempting to say what would be regarded as a blasphemous and negative comment. Lennon simply stated that rock music, The Beatles in particular, were more popular in England than Christianity at that point.
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Still trying to catalog them all, get a paragraph or two on the singers/groups.
What a piece of crap that song is.
Don’t forget White Album, Helter Skelter, Piggies, Sexy Sadie, et al
Idol worship. Beatle fans worshipped The Beatles. The Beatles were idolized and Lennon was a hypocrite, Chapman loathed Lennon’s hypocrisy.
Imagine... a multi-millionaire workingmans hero. What a pant load.
The only Beatle with any integrity at all was Ringo. Why? Because he wasn’t all stuck on himself.
John Lennon was an atheist.....when he made that remark their manager knew he had steped in it. I remember all the DJs trying to cover his ass but it what out there and there wasn’t much to say about it.
It’s been a while since anyone took my (non-serious) tagline seriously.
Yeah, I was there too. I knew some seriously burned out people. But most of us that smoked grew up. Had some fun, some close calls, but made it through. Went through Colorado a couple of years ago on a road trip, briefly considered getting some pot for old times sake. Then, nah, too cheap and too lazy to bother.
“Okay - gramps has lots of old 45’s we rescued from a couple of jukeboxes. Then too, no girls in the UK?”
I’m thinkin’ bad teeth.
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in 1977, Lennon became deeply moved by NBC’s broadcast of the movie Jesus of Nazareth and told his friends that he had become a born-again Christian. A week after seeing the film, Lennon returned to church on Easter Sunday with his wife Yoko and son Sean in tow.
It was during this time that Lennon even penned several Christian songs (“Talking with Jesus” and “Amen”), and according to Turner’s book, even called The 700 Club prayer line.
“not any sort of communist propaganda.”
It presents as plausible the premise that an intelligent person could be happy upon his return to the evil empire, to one of the foulest tyrannies that have ever existed.
It was vile, lying propaganda for the wrong side in the Cold War, attempting to put evil on the same moral footing as good.
I am at a loss to comprehend how a sane person could deny that it was propaganda.
>>“It’s just an expression, meaning the Beatles seem to me to have more influence over youth than Christ.
Secularist John Lennon didn’t like the disciples or organized religion. He said Christianity would certainly come to an end.
Like Barack Obama, Jesus was just “some sort of historical figure” to them.
The Freedom FROM Religion Foundation certainly doesn’t omit the rest of the original 1966 quote.
https://ffrf.org/news/day/dayitems/item/14584-john-lennon
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that. I’m right and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now. I don’t know which will go first—rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
And here is the entire article from 1966
https://www.beatlesbible.com/1966/03/04/how-does-a-beatle-live-by-maureen-cleave/
And? The Church has become a purveyor of socialist constructs instead of a preacher of Jesus...and living under the New Covenant is meant for folks who believe and who have accepted the Gift of Jesus to live the way Lennon envisioned (Where there is love, there is no harm...and that fulfills the intent of [fill in the blank])....way too many of the Christian community have fallen from Grace by deciding they had to be holier than the next guy, and make it clear as Hell, in order to save their “special place”.
A few things:
-People change their minds about all sorts of things; Lennon (and everyone else) don’t necessarily think the same things when they’re 35 as when they’re 20. But famous people get their statements hung around their necks for the rest of their lives, irrespective of whether they’ve changed their minds in the interim. Especially if they’re now dead and can’t comment.
-Lennon himself commented to Neil Aspinall that people shouldn’t be overly influenced by “Imagine” (he famously said “It’s just an F’ing song, Neil...”)
-Lennon also was an enemy of the far left, and they hated him for it. He was against Vietnam (many people were), but the lyrics of “Revolution” was an indictment of the Antifa-types of the day. “When you talk about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me out...free your mind instead...carrying pictures of Chairman Mao ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow...” Protest? Fine. Violence? NO.
-Lennon was right about the waning influence of traditional religion in the UK after WW2, and how popular the Beatles were. If he was an atheist at the time, it’s not a crime to be one. he’s received way too much grief for that, especially if it influenced scumbag Chapman to shoot him.
—All the jokes about Yoko controlling him aside, he did have strong eclectic opinions of his own. I think he had an excellent chance to be red-pilled if he hadn’t died - like Frank Sinatra was. Not that he would have become full blown GOP,but he was much mellower and more introspective in the late 70’s close to the time of his death. He and Ronald Reagan were very chummy when they happened to meet during a football game while Reagan was campaigning.
Viewing Lennon as just another garden-variety outspoken leftist musician is a mistake.
And can get quite nasty when provoked.
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