Religious Nuts Were Prevalent In South Back In The 1960's. Outrage Over Lennon Quip.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Watching Beatles Touring Video. John Lennon's remark about Beatles being more popular than Jesus caused religionuts hysteria back in the 1960. Looks like we had the emerging problem of radical religion back then and just did not realize it.

[msongs]

1. he was right, they were more popular than jesus at the time. xtians cant handle truth lol nt

[whathehell]

6. Um, no..Even he later admitted to the remark being hyperbolic

..Godess save us from the literal minded.

[KatyMan]

12. Well, it was more taken out of context.

He was asked in a long interview for a magazine in Britain a year or so before of his thoughts on religion, and he said basically religion doesn't mean anything to kids nowadays (at that time in Britain), and that they care more about the Beatles. He later said if he would have said television is more popular than Jesus nobody would have cared.

[H2O Man]

15. Correct.

[bobbieinok]

2. Were't there preachers holding rockandroll record burning revivals in the 50s?

[TheMastersNemesis]

5. Yes I Believe They Were. But They Also Trashed The Beatles After John's Remark.

In fact the Beatles ended up ending their touring days after a disastrous tour in the US.

[JHB]

8. Yes, and that had a stong racial component to fuel it...

Rock, like jazz before it, was "jungle music", and because of that it was "the devil's music." Once they suddenly noticed white teens were listening to it, it had to be reviled with all thy might.

Fat lot of good it did them.

[Aristus]

13. Not just white teens listening to it, but dancing to it.

With black teens in the same venue.

Several early rock artists were notable for pulling down the rope that divided the concert venue, separating the white kids from the black kids. Then they could all dance together.

I'm sure the Deliverance crowd went beserk when that happened, and the record burnings increased exponentially.

[OriginalGeek]

16. Ha! that just reminded me of a sermon by my youth pastor

it was late 70s and "Christian" rock was becoming a thing. To shorten and paraphrase a looooong-ass preaching session: rock can't be christian no matter what the lyrics are because the music is based on African rhythms that were used to call forth demons in the jungle.
True believers telling us this shit.

I remember record burnings at our church into the 70s. (May have been some later but I left after I graduated high school in 81)

A different youth pastor commented on John Lennon's assassination thusly: "One down, three to go." And he said it joyfully unto the lord.


Thank heavens I'm an atheist now.

[Runningdawg]

10. All the way through the 70's

I saved my KISS collection by buying country and gospel music albums at garage sales. I would switch the LPs. My parents burned KISS covers while the actual LPs were safely hidden inside the country/gospel covers. After my mother found Sticky Fingers and my dad beat my ass I had to attend special prayer sessions with the elders.

[bobbieinok]

11. And later vs Dungeons&Dragons, then vs Pokemon, and then Harry Potter

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. These Faux Christian Right Religions? Are Not Religions But Multimillion Dollar Business Empires.

When you are raising millions and even billions of dollars in th name of the Bible you are NOT a religion but a business. Look at all the quasi Christian right religious institutions where the worth is even in the billions of dollars. Private jets, private security, multimillion dollar mansions, broadcast empires. Tithing for dollars.

Yet they are tax exempt and want to be PACS. They want to endorse and campaign for candidates or religious laws. It is the most insane situation you can think of.

So they are fair game. When you are pushing religion and demanding government policy reflect religious concepts for even non believers you are open to all the criticism coming your way. We have religious dictators trying to take over the country and trash the separation of church and state.

[Soxfan58]

7. True

The seperation of church and state goes both ways. We need to fight religious repression now not when it is to late.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. and the religious right had the KKK doing their work during the uproar

[retread]

9. The Beatles' response was brilliant.

"No one was saved."

[Wounded Bear]

14. Religious Nuts have been Prevalent since religion was invented...

as a means to control the unwashed masses.

[Archae]

17. Not just religious nuts.

Dictators and would-be dictators love dictating what is allowed and what is "verboten."

Adolf Hitler and the Nazis hated banned jazz and "degenerate" (translation: modern) art.

In North Korea today, people are send to slave labor camps for listening to the Beatles instead of "proper patriotic" (translation: propaganda) music.