I marked in bold black Lennons quote...the answer to what he said was......drum roll......He Went (Shot Dead)...He Gone'! Yet God's Word remains!

The Gospel According to John, Ringo, Paul and George [Excerpts]



Rock music writer Steve Turner grew up in a Christian home in Daventry,

England. And like other teenagers who came of age in the 1960s, Turner

was =

a

huge Beatles fan.



"At that time, Christians weren't too keen on rock 'n' roll music, so

peopl=

e

in the church generally weren=B9t too keen on the Beatles," Turner says

in a

phone call from London.



"Yet, after a few years, the Beatles became interested in religious

topics,

so there was this interplay between religion and rock music that I

became

interested in."



Forty years after John Lennon made his infamous and often misunderstood

comment that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus" -- spawning

ban-the-Beatles protests -- Turner explores the Fab Four's spiritual

quest

in his latest book, "The Gospel According to the Beatles."



Long before they became the Fab Four, though, each of the Beatles was

influenced by religion -- Paul McCartney and George Harrison in the

Roman

Catholic Church and Lennon and Ringo Starr in the Church of England,

Turner

says.



As he grew older, Turner embarked on a spiritual odyssey of his own,

and he

found inspiration in the music of the Beatles.



"They sort of validated the search for God, if you like," he says. "For

a

long time, it seemed like rock music or pop music was almost like an

alternative to religion."



"You had George Harrison quoting bits of the Bible -- 'the kingdom of

heave=

n

is within,' and things like that -- and I was thinking, 'Hmm, I think

I've

heard that before."



"It seemed like The Beatles were suddenly on to something that you've

been

on to for a long time."



(Carlton, Religion News Service, 1/25/07).



[TBC: Lennon's "often misunderstood quote" in full says, "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 and roll or Christianity." It may be harder for

some t=

o

"admit" what he said than to understand what he said. Another

commentator

writes, "Lennon and Yoko Ono were fascinated by the occult. He

purchased

entire sections of occult literature in bookstores (Hellhounds on Their

Trail, p. 181). Occultist John Green was hired by Yoko Ono in 1974 to

be he=

r

tarot card reader. As time went on he became Lennon's advisor,

confidant an=

d

friend. Until October of 1980, he worked closely with them. They did

everything according to 'the cards.' He advised them on all of their

business transactions and investments, even to the point of how to

handle

the problems Lennon was having with Apple, the Beatles record company"

(Son=

g

Magazine, Feb. 1984, p. 16, cited by More Rock, Country & Backward

Masking

Unmasked, p. 105). 'People were hired and fired based on the findings

of th=

e

tarot card reader, Charlie Swan; the Council of Seers, an assortment of

freelance astrologers, psychics and directionalists; and Yoko's own

consultations with the zodiac and Book of Numbers' (Rosen, Nowhere Man,

p.

38)."]

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