{"id":22,"date":"2005-12-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2005\/12\/an-emblem-of-his-age.html"},"modified":"2005-12-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T12:00:00","slug":"an-emblem-of-his-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2005\/12\/an-emblem-of-his-age.html","title":{"rendered":"An Emblem of His Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>Think John Lennon and religion, and what springs to mind is his loose-cannon observation in 1966 that \u201cThe Beatles are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsoftheodd.com\/article1012.html\" target=\"_new\">more popular than Jesus<\/a>\u201d (which led radio stations to sponsor record burnings and others to make death threats) and assorted jibes Lennon took at organized religion in his two books. On the political site Counterpunch today, the editors honor the 25th anniversary of the lead Beatle\u2019s death by unearthing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\" target=\"_new\">1971 interview<\/a> in which Lennon hints at a deeper religious history. \u201cI used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist,\u201d Lennon says, before recounting how therapy \u201cforced me to have done with all the God s\u2014t.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think John Lennon and religion, and what springs to mind is his loose-cannon observation in 1966 that \u201cThe Beatles are more popular than Jesus\u201d (which led radio stations to sponsor record burnings and others to make death threats) and assorted jibes Lennon took at organized religion in his two books. On the political site Counterpunch&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An Emblem of His Age<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2005\/12\/an-emblem-of-his-age.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An Emblem of His Age\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Think John Lennon and religion, and what springs to mind is his loose-cannon observation in 1966 that \u201cThe Beatles are more popular than Jesus\u201d (which led radio stations to sponsor record burnings and others to make death threats) and assorted jibes Lennon took at organized religion in his two books. 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