Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
— John Lennon Modern

Beatles, peace activist

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Interview with Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard

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1966

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Shocking

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