Posted on 02/04/2010 12:18:39 PM PST by FTJM
John Lennon caused a worldwide storm by claiming that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus.
Now, more than four decades on, it seems his former bandmate Ringo Starr has acknowledged a humbler place in the grand scheme of things.
The drummer says he has found God - after taking a long and winding road to enlightenment.
He admitted he lost his way when he was younger, both as a Beatle experimenting with marijuana and LSD and afterwards when he suffered alcohol and cocaine problems in the late 1970s.
But the musician, who has since become teetotal and quit his 60-a-day cigarette habit, says that religion now plays an important role in his life.
Starr, who turns 70 later this year, said: 'I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
'For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that. I think the search has been on since the 1960s.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“HELP!
I need some Body!”
Any particular God there, Ringo?
i read this and sent out to friends the other day. i’m sorry that
john lennon never had the opportunity to reach this point.
he might not have taken it but, like ringo, he might have.
Good.
Good for him.
And i said,
“no, no, no, no, i don’t (choose yer poison) no more,
I’m tired of waking up on the floor.
No, thank you, please, it only makes me sneeze,
And then it makes it hard to find the door.”
John Lennon was overrated, and pw'ed by a manipulative nut.
“No no no no, I don’t drink (smoke, snort) it no more...”
Better late than never.
He looks real good for 70.
Good for you Ringo, and completely understandable. But I and the ever growing legions of faithless hordes (particularly the British) can only look forward to death as an end to everything. On our death beds we will lie there knowing thats its, the end, nothing, forever. You on the other hand will go to your end with a positive outlook and probably with much less fear. After all, we never ever speak about it, but I think the majority fear death, and rightly so I guess. After all, Life is the most amazing gift but an eternity of nothingness is just that nothing.
- Robert, Aberdeen, 3/2/2010 11:56
Praise God if this is true. Solomon with his riches and wisdom reached the same conclusion as well.
Yup he does!
Several years ago, I read here on FR that two biographers, working separately, both discovered that Lennon had accepted Christ a year or two before his death.
I have got to wonder if “immortality serum” has already been developed and you have to be “someone of note” in order to get your hands on it....
He doesn’t proclaim the name of Christ,
and “finding God” doesn’t do him much good, eternally, otherwise.
This will make progressive heads explode all over New England...
I'm still not sure he gets it.
W.C. Fields in the hospital and near the end.
"a friend stopped by for a visit and caught Fields reading the Bible. When asked why, Fields replied, 'I'm checking for loopholes."
Actually John was starting to warm up to Jesus at the end of his life. But like many of us it takes a long long time to really sense it in everyday living and it surely would have taken John a bit longer but he seemed on track.
http://www.cbn.com/entertainment/Books/carey_john_lennon.aspx
Its a strange thing that often those most antagonistic to Christianity later become Christians. St Paul is the perfect example of that. Maybe Richard Dawkins will come around, and he is a LOT less antagonistic than Paul was.
George Harrison regularly referred to God as well, but he was mainly into the Eastern religions.
Good for him. Hopefully Beatles fans will be as moved by his conversion as they seemed to be by Lennon’s Godless socialism.
SnakeDoc
That line struck me too. There are many *gods* he could be referring to. I pray he has found the right one.
He looks good for his age....
I think the NIKE dress shoes are perfect..: )
Will you still need me, will you still feed me. When I'm sixty-four...!!
Apparently his wife will!!
That would make the Beatles anti-God.
Sounds like he is a Universalist.
A lifetime of sex, drugs, Rock n’ Roll and seducing an entire generation of youth to follow him on the journey.
That contributed as a catalyst of the counter culture revolution that we still suffer from to this day. We lost a generation to drugs and loose sex, and even lost a war.
God might forgive that. I won’t.
"God" could be Buddha, Allah, or Obama for all we can tell.
Not that I care. Too many of these entertainment names are gods unto themselves....and their egos would never submit to a higher moral authority.
Leni
TRANSLATION: Ringo is cramming for exams!
I am friends with a Pastor who was preaching in Japan in the 70’s. He said that John Lennon came into a service, very quietly sat in the back, and left with a sad look on his face.
That would totally shock me if true, for as much as I loved The Beatles, I was so displeased with JL for Imagine. I hated to see him and The Beatles go off the cliff and takes thousands with them.
Please see my post #35
I don’t question him. He says he found God, then I believe him. At heart Ringo is just a lucky bloke from Liverpool. He has had a very interesting life and ultimately handled it well. Same can be said for George and Paul. Think John would have mellowed if permitted. With the exception of John, think they all handled the fame and fortune thingy pretty well.
If God himself forgives Ringo then what right do you have to hold anything against him ?
Thanks.
I think the conversion supposedly took place in his apartment in 1978 or 1979 while watching a Christian program on TV.
I seem to remember that much.
Glad to see he's slimmed down and that his wife of almost 30 years (Barbara Bach) is at his side.
ping
I think he was coming around fast when that zip wad shot him.
Keep him in our prayers. If he truly is a follower of Christ then Satan will not be happy and persecution will surely follow.
Cue the “No no no” song.
Ok Ringo, what’s your secret? What kind of hair dye are you using? Some of us would like to know when we get there. :)
Indeed - there is only one way to God, and that is Jesus Christ. By no other name will one be saved.
I have no proof of anything, but I have long had a sneaking suspicion that Yoko knew something was up with John and that she might have been more involved with his murder than people think....it’s just a hunch. Perhaps she wanted to protect the legacy before John turned around and denounced it all. I even heard Lennon was happy about Reagan being elected, and liked him a lot (they met by happenstance once in the booth at halftime of a Monday Night Football game).
Well that is even sadder if that was the case. A figure like JL accepting Christianity would have influenced untold numbers of people, especially his wayward followers.
Back in the 90’s, Ringo narrated some episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine kids show. I found myself watching the show just to listen to him. He was mesmerizing.
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