I guess in all of the recent publicity about the sex scandal and corruption in their church, this one must have went by the media. So, the Vatican forgave the Beatles for the Jesus comment. Check it out, its pretty funny. The hypocrisy is steep.
On March 4, 1966, this quote of John's was printed in an interview by reporter (and friend of John's) Maureen Cleave in the London Evening Standard:
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
We all know what followed after. So, now they have released this;
I think that Madonna will have to wait awhile before her apology comes.
Madonna is likely to become the queen of the universe before the patriarchs of any oligarchy will retract their chauvinist comments which they may have made about her.
ReplyDeleteI find it all too convenient that they are doing this at this time. 1. Beatles RockBand is huge. 2. Everyone in the church is being exposed. I wish them all luck. People are gonna get real sick of it soon.
ReplyDeleteThe news media has always been very good at deliberately distorting the words of public figures, and that's what happened to John Lennon. Even after he explained what he actually meant by this statement, some years later he regretted what he said. As a child he was brought up in church, and he went through a phase of dabbling in Christianity not long before he died.
ReplyDeleteIf I was a Christian in the American Bible belt in the 1960s, would I have participated in burning Beatles records? Probably not. I don't feel comfortable with some of the things they stood for as a band, but appreciate their musical talent, and listen to them occasionally.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you that the media was partly to blame for this. However, there has been controversial statements made about the lives of these guys. I believe, at one point, it was spoken that John Lennon used to knock over nuns at school and urinate on them.
That being said. I find the hypocrisy of the Catholic church the most offensive here. By trying to deflect the headlines, they are aligning themselves with the Beatles. Terrible.
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ReplyDeleteLennon had a pretty dysfunctional upbringing. It sounds like he was being a typical rebellious teenager.
ReplyDeleteYes... Who wasn't?..... The Catholic Church has a long way to go.
ReplyDeleteIn saying what he said, Lennon was simply observing that the Beatles had more influence over kids than Christ. What he was trying to say was that they were merely a rock band, yet some of their fans worshipped them religiously. Some Christian leaders even agreed with him, so there you go.
ReplyDeleteI think that he was also satirizing the modern type of worship that you are discussing. I actually think that he thought he was being funny and sarcastic, and his comments were taken too literally. Which is comedy in itself.
ReplyDeleteI think you're right. Lennon was a pretty irreverent sort of a guy, wasn't he?
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I think he was a mixed message. Sorta a rock and roll evangelical, in the way that he preached one way, and lived the other. He was very wealthy when he died. Hard to say.
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