This is part 2 of a series that began with The Beatles – John Lennon and the occult.
On March 4, 1966—perhaps coincidentally the same year when Anton LaVey established the church of satan—John Lennon stated:
“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.”
Subsequently, Lennon had the following exchange with a reporter:
“If I had said television is more popular than Jesus, I might have got away with it, but I just happened to be talking to a friend and I used the words ‘Beatles’ as a remote thing, not as what I think – as Beatles, as those other Beatles like other people see us. I just said ‘they’ are having more influence on kids and things than anything else, including Jesus. But I said it in that way which is the wrong way.’”
Note that he sidesteps the fact that his statement was premised upon besmirching Christianity, exclusively, “Christianity will go.” He was also so, obviously, wrapped up in his own tiny little world that he did not consider that there were, at the time, people all over the world with no regard or even knowledge of for rock ‘n’ roll, no regard or even knowledge of the Beatles nor, for that matter, even the use of electricity.
A reporter asked:
“Some teenagers have repeated your statements – ‘I like the Beatles more than Jesus Christ.’ What do you think about that?”
To which John Lennon answered:
“Well, originally I pointed out that fact in reference to England. That we meant more to kids than Jesus did, or religion at that time. I wasn’t knocking it or putting it down.”
This, even though he stated “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.” He was not putting it down? He was putting it out, with the rubbish.
Lennon continued directly in reply to the reporter with:
“I was just saying it as a fact and it’s true more for England than here. I’m not saying that we’re better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it’s all this….I wasn’t saying whatever they’re saying I was saying. I’m sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don’t know quite what I’ve done. I’ve tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I’m sorry.”
So, he “never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing” even though he stated “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink” which is 100% anti-religion.
“early in his career, John regularly poked fun at church dignitaries, parodied hymns, and drew blasphemous cartoons of Christ on the cross. A biographer Philip Norman writes, ‘While in Hamburg, John, each Sunday would stand on the balcony, taunting the churchgoers as they walked to St. Joseph’s. He attached a water-filled contraceptive to an effigy of Jesus and hung it out for the churchgoers to see. Once he urinated on the heads of three nuns.’ (Philip Norman, Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation, p. 152)
Later, he started to think that Christ – like the Beatles – might have had divinity thrust on him by fans. When he was under the influence of drugs, he admitted that he thought he was Christ. When he got into Eastern mysticism, he thought Christ’s message was to tell us we’re all divine, sons of God like Christ – we just don’t recognize it.”“Lennon gave a suspicious account of the origin of the name ‘Beatles.’ In 1961 he wrote: ‘It came in a vision – a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, ‘From this day on you are Beatles with an A.’ Thank you, Mister Man, they said, thanking him.’”
“Lennon and Yoko Ono knew about it too. They consulted mediums, astrologists, numerologists, psychics, etc. and had links with the occult. One of Ono’s latest albums is titled ‘Yes, I’m a Witch.’”
“In his book, The Ultimate Evil, investigator-author Maury Terry writes that between 1966 and 1967, the Satanic cult, the Process Church, ‘sought to recruit the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. The Beatles’ links with Satanist Aleister Crowley are documented. Crowley’s photo appeared on the Sgt. Pepper album cover. The Beatles testified that the characters who appeared on the album were their ‘heroes.’”
You can read up on Aleister Crowley here.
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