Saturday, July 12, 2008

I always knew about John Lennon's devotion

And now some tapes have been found from 1969. Ah, if only they had been made public back then, the good influence it would have had on young people. Yet, even remaining private, it is the fact of his internal devotion to Jesus that counts, and I'm glad people can now witness to it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2298584/%27Bigger-than-Jesus-The-Beatles-were-a-Christian-band%27.html

excerpt:

On heaven, he says: "I haven't got any sort of dream of a physical heaven where there's lots of chocolate and pretty women in nightgowns, playing harps. I believe you can make heaven within your own mind. The kingdom of heaven is within you, Christ said, and I believe that."

The author Paul Du Noyer, who has written extensively on the Beatles, said: "He was chastened by the reaction he got to his Jesus remarks and it probably made him think more carefully about religion.

"These comments would have been a great boost for churches if they had come out at the time."

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"Imagine" his surprise when he found the miscarried babies in heaven waiting for their dad :-)