Vatican 'forgives' John Lennon

[Nono]

BBC NEWS | Europe | Vatican 'forgives' John Lennon

A Vatican newspaper has forgiven the late English singer John Lennon for saying four decades ago that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus.

Well now ... Them wheels turn pretty slowly.

I've never understood what the fuss was all about anyway.

[tinybear]

Have we forgiven the Vatican for covering up those hideous crimes committed by their priests yet?

[Scribbler1]

I don't think Lennon really needed the Pope's forgiveness nor did he want it.

He was RIGHT when he said The Beatles were more popular than Christ. He was not speaking of anything other than the insane idol worship of the kids who screamed and fainted if they had the slightest shot at getting a glimpse of them.
That line seems to live forever, but Lennon's subsequent explanation of what he meant has long since died. LINK

[Morality Games]

A Vatican newspaper has forgiven the late English singer John Lennon for saying four decades ago that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus.

Whew! Now I can sleep easy. Can't tell you how often that's kept me pacing back and forth at night.

[FriedrichSeneca]

Have we forgiven the Vatican for covering up those hideous crimes committed by their priests yet?

When an employee rape his kids, do you expect his boss to apologise?

[SoylentGreen]

Keep pacing MG this article only says that "A Vatican newspaper has forgiven the late English singer John Lennon", not that the vatican has.

L'Osservatore Romano recently got a new editor

And with this kind of radical thinking i wonder how long he will remain?

This part is interesting,

Lennon told a British newspaper in 1966 - at the height of Beatlemania - that he did not know which would die out first, Christianity or rock and roll.

At the time, the comparison sparked controversy in the US.

So 42 years later and which do you think will outlast the other now.

[Scribbler1]

So 42 years later and which do you think will outlast the other now.

Well, Lennon was killed, but the Pope regenerates more than Doctor Who.

[SoylentGreen]

Well, Lennon was killed, but the Pope regenerates more than Doctor Who.

But unlike the good doctor he seems to be getting older with each regeneration.
I can think of at least one song by john , can you name me one sermon by the pope.

[Scribbler1]

But unlike the good doctor he seems to be getting older with each regeneration.
I can think of at least one song by john , can you name me one sermon by the pope.

I'm not catholic, so count me out on that. Come to think of it, I doubt many Catholics can name a Papal sermon either.

I DO remember, "All you wops get offa the lawn" though. Oh wait, that was Cheech and Chong. Sorry.

But I remember almost every record The Beatles, and the four of them made after they split up.

[Compugasm]

The only reason there isn't a mural of the Beatles depicted in the Last Supper, is because no one can figure out how to paint Yoko Ono simultaneously into the Mary and Judas positions.

[Kamehameha34]

When an employee rape his kids, do you expect his boss to apologise?

Of course not, but if an employee rapes the children of a customer that entreats the company for business - analogously equivalent to raping the children of paritioners - I would very much expect the boss to apologize for making such a gross character misjudgement.

[Clarence]

I don't think Lennon really needed the Pope's forgiveness nor did he want it.

He was RIGHT when he said The Beatles were more popular than Christ. He was not speaking of anything other than the insane idol worship of the lolkids who screamed and fainted if they had the slightest shot at getting a glimpse of them.

right on. and now a weird perverted notion of Jesus is worshiped by more kids today than John Lennon!

The only reason there isn't a mural of the Beatles depicted in the Last Supper, is because no one can figure out how to paint Yoko Ono simultaneously into the Mary and Judas positions.

lol! absolutely profound.