Forest time I’ve ever seen him referred to as a religious fanatic
Same here. Maybe part of the new crusade against Christian nationalists
I read back then he was taken up with Catcher in the Rye novel and the hypocrisy of Lennon. No religious mention.
As for the Beatles claim, that was in 1966, and they caught lots of flack over it. They later apologized. Lennon died in 1980.
Yeah, me too. I wonder what’s up with that?
In fact, IIIRC, they said he did it to impress Jody Foster because he had a crush on her or something.
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It’s nonsense. He was a paranoid schizophrenic. He claimed to hear voices and see “little people” who crawled out of the walls, which are classic schizophrenic type of delusions.
As for objecting to the “bigger than Jesus” comment, he was probably a small child when that happened. Sounds like a post hoc excuse to me. Like a lot of other criminals, he may have feigned a religious conversion to attempt to present himself as reformed and curry favor with the review board or something like that. Or maybe he did have some strong religious beliefs, but they surely would have been warped by whatever mental delusions he was suffering.