John Lennon (1940-1980) on God:If I’m going to be a monk with nothing, do it. … People got the image I was anti-Christ or antireligion. I’m not at all. I’m a most religious fellow. I’m religious in the sense of admitting there is more to it than meets the eye. I’m certainly not an atheist.
Yes Virginia, there is a Hell – just imagine what John Lennon might say (& did):
The idea of being a rock‘n’roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality, and the freedom was great. But then I found I wasn’t free. I'd got boxed in. … a physical manifestation of being in prison. … Rock ’n’ roll was not fun anymore. So there were the standard options in my business: going to Vegas and singing your greatest hits - if you're lucky - or going to hell, which is where Elvis went. [1]
Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the way. That’s another piece of garbage. What the [**/% is] it based on? We couldn’t’ve come from anything - fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don’t believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren’t monkeys changing into men now? It’s absolute garbage.
Lennon was critical of Young Earth Science (YES), but also recognized the limitations of Big Science and the dominance of Sacred Cows inScience:
[Evolution is] absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago [sic, Y6K], the fundamentalists. … I don't buy it [Evolution]. I've got no basis for it and no theory to offer, I just don't buy it. Something other than that. Something simpler. I don't buy anything other than "It always was and ever shall be." [fixity of Kinds?] I can't conceive of anything less or more. The other theories change all the time. They set up these idols and then they knock them down. It keeps all the old professors happy in the university. It gives them something to do. I don't know if there's any harm in it except they ram it down everybody's throat. Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of "experts" who made them up in the first place.
Fred Seaman, who worked with Lennon from 1979 till his death, said that Lennon would vote for Reagan and that Lennon, “did express support for Reagan, which shocked me.” Raymond Damadian, a YES supporter, was awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1988 by Ronald Reagan and in 1989 was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for inventing MRI.
John Lennon as prophet: “The biggest prize is when you die - a really big one for dying in public. OK: Those are the things we are not interested in doing.” Lennon was assassinated by Mark David Chapman in NYC in 1980. [2]
Did Lennon believe the Good News about Jesus Christ before he died?
For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life (Jn. 3:16, AMP).
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Possibly The-Fab-4 could add this song to their repertoire:
Evo Submarine
In Shrewsbury where he was born,
Lived a man who sailed with gustAnd he told us of his life,
In the land of Galapagos,
So he sailed on to the sun,
Till we found the finches mean,And we lived beneath the waves,
In our EVO submarine,
We all live in a Darwin submarine,
EVO submarine, UCA* submarine,And our fossils are all aboard,
Many more of them live next door,As we live just as we please
Idols all and live for greed
Sky of blue, and sea green
In our EVO submarine
*UCA = Universal Common Ancestry
Notes:
1) quoted in All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono by David Sheff (St. Martin's Griffin, 2000), p. 6.2) Ibid.
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