I think that at that point (in the UK and the US) he may have been correct.
Which says more about the people than it does the Beatles.
John said “Christianity will go” and that he will be proved right.
The fringe Left has done what it can do to combat Christianity and not just in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Agreed.
By the bye:
I did live through the Sixies, and I do remember it - vividly...
... because I did not do any drugs, although I was surrounded by those who did, including my two siblings, who destroyed themselves.
I grew up in Palo Alto, less than a mile from Stanford. Yes, I remember the Sixties all too well.