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
He screwed up the western world during the cold war with his Peace crap.
Yeah. I’m numb with grief.
It was a sad day indeed yet it seemed he was aware it was coming. Whispering “shoot me” over and over. Well happiness is a warm gun.
IIRC he was killed on his doorstep?
I admit to being a huge Beatles fan (I even have a signature John Lennon Rickenbacker guitar and a Vox AC-30 Amp) but Lennon was a naive fool. Ever listen to the words to “Imagine?” It’s basically the Communist Manifesto set to nice music.
i do not know what your religion is, but in mine we shall pray for the soul of john lennon and hope that when we are gone others will pray for us.
then again, in mine we do not claim perfection sufficient to allow us to spend our earthly days criticizing others.
oh, and he was not killed “near” his home; he was killed at the front door to his home.
If ever there was a reason for high capacity magazines, Yoko is it.
Hey Dep whats your problem? I truly hope he made his peace with God before he died,as I wrote in the article, but Lennon is a legitimate subject for anaylsis because he influenced so many millions and still does to this day. I am a Christian. I am not ashamed to “Cry out Loud”(see Proverbs 1) about the people and trends that are and have been seducing and dragging people to hell.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
John had his moment in the sun...boy did he do a lot a very poor songs too. I think he always knew he was standing in the shadows of the greats....American blues....Buddy Holly....Chuck Berry.
RIP John, you meant well and gave us entertainment. Not much more.
“Lennon was a naive fool”
Most liberals are but he had a good heart and a real BS woman. My gawd what a hideous rag!
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.
His home in the evil U.S.
75% of American Indians seems a bit high. Did they factor in the time spans of each country’s “massacre”? Don’t see China or Cambodia on the list.
If I live to be 100 I’ll never understand what he saw in her.
He was the loudest nihilist ever.
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeWIMYVKbLE
John Lennon - stand by me
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