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Lennon;Whose Minstrel Was He? pt 1
http://billrandles.wordpress.com/ ^ | 11-04-10 | Bill Randles

Posted on 12/04/2010 7:03:56 PM PST by pastorbillrandles

On December 8, 1980, The World was stunned to hear that John Lennon was murdered on a street in New York, not far from where he and his wife Oko lived. The impact of his death was felt immediately, as millions mourned the forty-year old rock star in candlelight vigils around the world.

What was this man’s legacy? Who is this man who will again be deeply mourned by many in this generation on the thirtieth anniversary of His death? Lennon was no doubt a profoundly gifted musician and lyricist, but I believe his legacy goes deeper than his involvement with the Beatles, and the songs he is noted for.

Lennon’s legacy was more than musical, it was and still is spiritual, for he was a minstrel for the drug and sexual revolution that swept through the west in the sixties. Obviously he wasn’t the only one who promoted sex and drugs through music, but he was one of the more effective toxic role models.

In a Rolling Stone interview of January 1971, Lennon admitted he began taking LSD in 1964, “How Long did it go?”, he was asked.”It went on for years” he replied.”I must of had a thousand trips…a thousand,I just used to eat it all the time”. When the Rolling Stone interviewer said “Theres a lot of obvious LSD things you did in the music,” Lennon replied,”Yes”. (from pg 58 The Legacy Of John Lennon, David Noebel,Nelson publishing)

Lennon would go on to say that “Help”, “Rubber Soul”,”Day Tripper” and “Yellow Submarine” were all drug oriented. Perhaps the most pervasively drug oriented Album up to that time, was 1967s “Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band”. This album has been credited with heralding the drug revolution.

Lennon himself , to be fair, insisted that “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” was not a coy reference to LSD, although the lyrics of the song evoke a mystical,dreamy hallucinogenic trip. But other songs such as “I Get High With A Little Help From My Friends”openly advocate the Pharmekia that God hates.

The fact that the Beatles were open and outspoken proponents of the Drug Revolution cannot be denied.Life Magazine, in an article “The New Far Out Beatles” quoted Paul McCartney about his own use of LSD;

“After I took it ,it opened my eyes.We use only 1/10 of our brain.Just think what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world.If politicians would take LSD, there wouldn’t be any more war ,poverty or famine!.”(Life June 1967)

In July 1967 The Beatles signed heir names to a full-page advertisement in the London Times, calling for the legalization of marijuana. In his biography of the band, called The Beatles, Hunter Davies quotes Lennon’s favorable evaluation of his own use of LSD,”I was suddenly struck by great visions when I first took acid. But you have got to be looking for it before you could possibly find it”.

Lennon was also a minstrel of the sexual revolution which wreaked such terrible havoc in the west. I personally do not believe we have ever recovered from the trashing of Judeo- Christian morality in the west, and perhaps never will.

Lennon strongly advocated in his songs and interviews, and by his very public life, the deliberate destruction of the Christian sexual ethic of monogamous. married, till death do us part commitment.

Lennon, while still married to his first wife Cynthia,posed nude for an Album cover with his adulterous lover Yoko Ono for his album The Two Virgins. His comment on that was ;

“…intellectually we knew marriage was a stupid scene, but we’re romantic and square as well as hip and aware. We lived together for a year before we got married, but we were still tied to other people by a bit of paper.”(Noebel,legacy of John Lennon, pg 52,Nelson)

Lennon also wrote a pornographic ,blasphemous book called A Spaniard In The Works, which ridiculed Jesus, in hate filled and badly written prose. There are many blasphemous, anti Christ quotations Lennon is noted for, therefore I feel no need to repeat them. We pray he had time to renounce his anti-christianity before he died, God alone knows.

We are all going to be treated to the spectacle of mass mourning, public airings of Lennon’s songs, notably the atheistic hymn, Imagine , and other forms of canonisation, on or about the anniversary of Lennon’s tragic death. But what exactly are the people mourning?

Who is going to mourn for the millions who followed Lennon’s lead into the drug culture, and never made it out to sanity again? Who will shed a tear for the legions of broken and ruined people, who allowed Lennon’s message of sexual anarchy to wreck their lives? What about the broken families, the disenfranchised children, the ruined health of the thousands who bought into Lennon’s hedonistic Utopia?

Lennon had gifts alright, but who did he actually put them to the service of?

Psalm 12

Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever .The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

more to come


TOPICS: Current Events; History; Moral Issues; Theology
KEYWORDS: drugs; jesus; johnlenin; legacy; lennon
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To: Cisco Nix
and,.... he was the Walrus. Koo, Koo, Katchoo...LOL
21 posted on 12/04/2010 7:24:41 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal!)
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To: pastorbillrandles; a fool in paradise
more to come

Cain't wait! Randles rants. Hasn't enough been said about John Lennon, he to be forgotten in about 20 years like Rudy Vallee, or some other pop crooner before him? Why not take up, oh, say, Andy Kim?!

22 posted on 12/04/2010 7:25:07 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Liberty Valance

23 posted on 12/04/2010 7:25:09 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
If ever there was a reason for high capacity magazines, Yoko is it.

Its depressing people like you exist.

24 posted on 12/04/2010 7:25:52 PM PST by Doe Eyes
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To: Frantzie

” He was a lousy father and was married to a miserable phony rich girl bad “artist” wannabe who controlled him like a puppet.

George Harrison was a truly nice man and also the most singularly most talented song writer in the band. McCartney is a show biz phony and Lennon was a rather unpleasant chap. Very sad that he was murdered. Also sad that his son was essentially disinherited by him.”

1 million kudos from Japan !


25 posted on 12/04/2010 7:25:52 PM PST by sushiman
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To: pastorbillrandles

“We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one ******* bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God!”

-— Denis Leary -—


26 posted on 12/04/2010 7:25:57 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: pastorbillrandles

I was there and I saw first hand what happened and John Lennon had little to do with. Not many understood the words to the songs that were written. There was a time, really when every song was understood. Then the mysterious songs started coming out in the mid to late sixties. Even with the words written down for you they still made no sense. What caused the sexual revolution was for the first time in history, girls could take a pill, once a day and feel free to have sex with who ever, when ever she wanted. It would have changed any generation. The drug scene was thanks to the vietnam war. Often idolized by their little brothers, big brothers came home knowing how to roll pot. I was in High School from 1968 to 1972. It was not their when my sister went to HS from 1962-1966 but by the time I got out, pot had secured a beachead there and NEVER left. Thanks LBJ


27 posted on 12/04/2010 7:27:19 PM PST by ynotjjr (Do you know who you're State Rep is? No Democrat left standing November 6th)
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To: ConorMacNessa

Hey Conor, Thanks for your service-


28 posted on 12/04/2010 7:27:25 PM PST by pastorbillrandles
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To: sushiman

But he did marry a sushiwoman, sushiman!


29 posted on 12/04/2010 7:27:46 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: pf flyers
LOL, I happen to have all of their original albums!!! And wore out several pairs of beetle boots.
30 posted on 12/04/2010 7:29:48 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: Tijeras_Slim

What you said is vile. Challenge your assumptions. You may not belong here.


31 posted on 12/04/2010 7:30:44 PM PST by pf flyers
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To: pastorbillrandles
Lennon was preachy about love and brotherhood and letting go of materialism while slapping around his first wife , abandoning his oldest son for years, and living the life style of a millionaire.
32 posted on 12/04/2010 7:31:21 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: pastorbillrandles
It was an honor to serve, Pastor!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
33 posted on 12/04/2010 7:32:27 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
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To: Revolting cat!

LOL! Glad you like my Rants my friend,unfortunately I have been working with young people who are enamored with the Beatles, therefore I Must Rant!!! If Rudy Valley ever becomes an influence for Atheism, Hedonism or what have you, let me know, (have google, Will Rant)- thanks for the comment!


34 posted on 12/04/2010 7:32:32 PM PST by pastorbillrandles
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To: pastorbillrandles

Judge not lest ye be judged


35 posted on 12/04/2010 7:34:13 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("[T]here is nothing so aggravating [in life] as being condescended to by an idiot" ~ Ann Coulter)
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To: MotorCityBuck

I thought that the walrus was Paul?


36 posted on 12/04/2010 7:35:47 PM PST by JPG (Sarah dedicated her new book to Trig: "I'm glad you're here.")
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To: Tijeras_Slim
If ever there was a reason for high capacity magazines, Yoko is it.

What did Yoko Ono ever do that would warrant that comment?

37 posted on 12/04/2010 7:37:14 PM PST by upsdriver (Sarah Palin; the most intelligent politician of her time. :-)
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To: big'ol_freeper

Lets put it this way- I am willing to be subjected to the same scrutiny that I call people to use on Lennon, the scripture also says “judge with Righteous judgment” we have to make judgements, What about “Cast not your pearls before swine” just a few verses in Matt 7 past “Judge not...”???


38 posted on 12/04/2010 7:37:28 PM PST by pastorbillrandles
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To: pf flyers
We will not see there likes again in our lifetime. The Beatles were an artistic and cultural phenomenon the world had never seen before and may never see again. They were channeling from something bigger than themselves.

And John was the coolest. Paul was the cutest.

Their talent was awesome.

Thanks for this post, I agree with all of it, except the part about Paul, who I never thought was more than trite.

As for all the "Christians" finding hell and damnation in music that lifted the hearts of billions for over forty years... "You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." - Matthew 7:5.

Conservatism is not life - it is the basis of a sane socio-political economic system that is only part of life. Staggeringly, it is actually possible to write songs about other parts of life that do not have anything to do with conservatism, but still have value. Art, in general, follows this idea as well.

Just some things for people to think about before they spit their chaw and shoot the piano player.

39 posted on 12/04/2010 7:40:08 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: pastorbillrandles

“...as millions mourned the forty-year old rock star in candlelight vigils around the world.”...

YEah, yeah. That was late in the year of 1980....So what? Probably millions did indeed “mourne” upon the news while billions would later learn of it in some way or another.

What’s worse is that some kids and young adults don’t know the difference between The Beatles and the Apollo 11 astronauts. Not to mention all the other astronauts...


40 posted on 12/04/2010 7:40:22 PM PST by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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