He wasn't commenting on any religious tenets, simply the awareness in humans of A versus B.
How did anyone take that as an insult to a ~religion~ itself?
2007-03-14 09:59:32 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Will the same thing happen merely by asking ~this~ question? If so, why?
2007-03-14 11:05:36 · update #1
Okay, for those who aren't getting it ... do you understand the difference between a comment about XYZ person, and a comment on the KNOWLEDGE of XYZ person by, say, aborigines in the middle of some jungle that has no bibles but does pick up Ed Sullivan?!?!
2007-03-14 14:56:19 · update #2
Put it this way ... Lennon was talking about apples ... the people who got offended were talking about oranges ...
Why can't the LATTER see that (it's so simple)?
2007-03-15 14:23:10 · update #3
Knee-jerk reactionism. They simply assumed that an insult was intended and over-reacted accordingly.
Maybe they didn't like to think of Jesus taking second place to anybody else. One of the things about christians is that they believe that Jesus is the absolute most important thing in the world. They would have got upset about it only if they took it personally - which of course many did.
2007-03-14 10:04:28 · answer #1 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe many people only half listened to what Mr. Lennon was saying. They heard Beatles & Jesus Christ used in the same sentence & immediately thought he was comparing the group to Jesus. The Beatles were already a shock factor to the older generation & they were looking for any reason to downgrade them.
Very good question!
2007-03-22 08:33:23 · answer #2 · answered by Edward J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Such tests people's strengths and confidence in their beliefs.
That would not have been a commentary on Lennon but on those who have fears and lack their own faiths, for those who have foundation would not feel threatened or feel the need or want to dignify Lennon's statement with action or response.
2007-03-21 17:45:39 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fringe anti-secularist Christians of the American South are prone to outbursts based on nothing more than the mere mention of their deity or even something that sounds like their deity. They're nutballs.
They were still hanging black people for daring to exist in their communities at the time, you know?
2007-03-14 10:03:52 · answer #4 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I didn't take offense to it, but people who are religious like that it was immoral to say that they were better than Jesus, but the people took it out of context, he was saying that they felt like at that time, they are more popular than Jesus.
2007-03-22 03:58:18 · answer #5 · answered by Jenn C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and mind! When we elevate ourselves or someone else above God we break that comandment and we dishonor the one who created us.
2007-03-22 07:43:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he was wrong. Jesus Christ is the King of Kings(despite what they say about Elvis)and where are the Beatles now? It wasn't an insult to a religian, it was an insult to Christ himself.
2007-03-14 10:05:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Well, it was probably the people who can't take a joke. But I bet they felt that he was saying he was better than Jesus, which of course, is terrible.
2007-03-14 10:06:25 · answer #8 · answered by Pooky 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
...maybe John Lennon will come back from the dead and in Ohhhh about 2000 years from now, see how his "stuff" holds up to His Stuff... Umm ?
2007-03-22 03:13:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
They were more famous in that they merely wrote and performed songs. Jesus was the Written word made flesh.
2007-03-14 10:02:45 · answer #10 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋