>>“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/