Recently I dedicated the following words to my friend, big fan of The Beatles. I now may recall our confusion first time we discovered famous Lennon's statement of old, about The Beatles being more poular than Jesus Christ: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I do not know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity... We're more popular than Jesus now."
He spoke the statement lightly at his 26 - not too old nor too young - and we, much younger at the time we read it, teenagers, already knew our rock'n'roll god were drunk of glory when he stated it. Besides, at the time the hippie culture flourished and many youngsters demystified their gods and myths, and promoted some new ideas. Everything was understandable, clear, forgivable about the situation, from our perspective, even at our teenage years. Interesting.
And Vatican figured it out barely nowadays! :)
Reuters: "The remark by John Lennon, which triggered deep indignation mainly in the United States, after many years sounds only like a 'boast' by a young working-class Englishman faced with unexpected success, after growing up in the legend of Elvis and rock and roll." (some "pious" Americans publicly burned The Beatles records as the product of a satanic band, whatever that means)
Furthermore: "The fact remains that 38 years after breaking up, the songs of the Lennon-McCartney brand have shown an extraordinary resistance to the passage of time, becoming a source of inspiration for more than one generation of pop musicians", Vatican daily Osservatore Romano said :)
Good morning, Vatican!
Should you stated such a thing 42 years ago, you could be a light of sanity in religious darkness, but considering time discrepancy you are nothing but a confused bunch recycling it's own repentances from year to year. But, as I may approve, you have an advantage over many others that consider themselves religious, because you worked on your historical council at the time of Lennon's juvenile statement, and you were busy in the process of change. So, you at last recognized young rock star's immatureness, compared to many "pious" and ignorant moralists today that still see rock'n'roll as satanism. It's all about understanding, love, knowledge, education...
Dear John, you just rest in peace and forgiveness. You've never been more popular than Jesus, but at least some time you've been working class hero. Time will come for those others to pull their heads out of their asses and open their eyes to see, and then full forgiveness for your youth will fall upon your soul as a blessing, for sure...
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