-Caveat Lector-
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Aleisha Saba wrote:
>Well the Beatles once said they had a bigger following than Christ - and
>then started the destruction of the Beatle records...
Only by stupid people who accepted the media's out-of-context statement
attributed to John Lennon...
What he in fact said, in an interview covering in a broader context the
subject of mass media and mass marketing, was that if the Beatles were to
give a concert on a Sunday morning, more people would attend their
concert than would have gone to church...
He never said anything about Christ, least of all that he or the Beatles
were more popular than Christ...even though, in fact, he and they were.
What he said was spot on...indeed, if they HAD held a Sunday morning
concert, most of the attendees of such a hypothetical concert probably
never DID attend church on a regular basis. In a later interview,
seeking to clarify what he had indeed said (as opposed to what had been
attributed to him), he stressed that he never said he considered the
Beatles to be better than Christ, and he said that he didn't consider it
right that more people would attend a Beatles concert on a Sunday morning
than would go to church, he was just stating a simple FACT.
But some ignorant people insist on repeating the myth that Lennon stated
that he (or the Beatles) were more popular or greater than Jesus...
June
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