Did the composer of (perhaps) the most secular song ever written, later disavow that song?

Archdiocese of Washington ^ | March 23, 2012 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[reaganaut]

I remember reading an article about John Lennon’s faith and it stated that right before he died John and Yoko were having fights and several of his friends weren’t speaking to him because all he would talk about was Jesus and his faith in Christ.

I don’t know how true the story is, but the article was well researched and interviewed a friend of his at the time who later became a Christian, so there may be some validity to the story. I certainly hope so.

[theDentist]

All he was saying is, Can't we all just get along?

[I cannot think of a name]

Thanks

(It still works, Lennon was 40 when he was killed. Obviously by then he had found a brain.)

[bgill]

How the heck does one not know those words?!?

[SgtSki]

OR

“We All Live In A Yellow Coupe DeVille”

[nixonsnose]

It has been said that artists speak and critics will explain to you

what they said,
what they meant to say,
and what they should have meant to say.

[fidelis]

“...Lennon was 40 when he was killed. Obviously by then he had found a brain.”
.
“Life begins at 40.” - John Lennon (1940-1980)

[Donnafrflorida]

I was in my mid forties when i took the time to “hear” the words. i was horrified.

[Bigh4u2]

I remember when I was a kid my mother used to sing a song to me to get me to eat my vegetables.

“All I am say..ing... Is give peas a chance”

:0)

[MD Expat in PA]

I remember when I was a kid my mother used to sing a song to me to get me to eat my vegetables.

“All I am say..ing... Is give peas a chance”

:0)

My mother tried the same thing on me except it was lima beans. Didn't work. :0)

[jmacusa]

“If one is twenty and not a liberal one has no heart. If one is forty and not a conservative one has no brain.’’— Winston Churchill.

[richmwill]

And you absolutely 100% know that he’s there, how?

[chesley]

John Lennon did great harm in his lifetime, regardless if he came to Christ in the end, or not. We must all hope he did, but my opinion, not worth the electrons it’s written on, are that he did not.

[chesley]

I don’t know about that. If your brain works at 25, or 15, or 10 (when I first learned about union violence), you become a conservative then, regardless of your heart.

And mine’s pretty big. But I am no fool and have always been conservative.

[Why So Serious]

I was a Reagan Democrat. Turned 18 the year Ron was first elected [1980]. Grew up in an Old Democratic house hold [back when the Democratic Party was all about the working man]. Reagan realized that the Democratic Party left the working class man [once they secured his union support] because they found a dumber mind set to exploit. The Welfare state. I had a brain at 18 when I first heard Ronald Reagan speak. Might have had it earlier, but Ron asked to open it politically.

[TASMANIANRED]

The Nihilist anthem.

[TalBlack]

“...John Lennon did great harm in his lifetime, regardless if he came to Christ in the end,...”

We all do harm in our lifetime. Mine had nowhere near the bandwidth of Lennons’ life yet I grieve at the harm I have done. John Lennon's life was more conspicuous than the rest of ours but he was no more or less flawed then anyone else, no more or less human than anyone else. When he is judged it will be by ONLY his and THE WHOLE of his own life. There will be no other standard present by which to set his life in relief; that is, Hitler will not be present nor will you. We will be alone when we are Judged and we will be judged by our deeds and our repentence.

[chesley]

You might have noticed that I said this was only my opinion. God hasn’t asked my advice about the matter.

That said, I DO have an opinion, and I have stated it. I also have done harm, but it was on an individual level, not on a vast social scale, as did Mr. Lennon.

I didn’t like him when he was alive; he didn’t improve with death. Nevertheless, I hope that he did repent and find salvation before he passed.

[chesley]

And having a brain didn’t make your heart hard. Dit it? :)

[TalBlack]

“You might have noticed that I said this was only my opinion. God hasn’t asked my advice about the matter.”

You might have noticed that I commented upon your opinion. You might have noticed that I said nothing about God seeking advice from you.
You might have noticed that my point in response to your opinion was that Mr.Lennons’ vast scale of damage to Human Kind won’t in any manner shape or form be nearby and handy to you when God ia inquiring into your sojourn upon His good earth...but you didn’t. Ah well....