THE BEATLES

www.wayoflife.org ^ | September 10, 2001 | David W. Cloud

[GB]

May God have mercy on your soul. What you espouse is not the Christianity I practice.

[AppyPappy]

makes you wonder just what is the difference between a fundamentalist Christian and a fundamentalist Muslim. It is not difficult to picture the author in a black turban and call him the Christian Taliban.

I sometimes wonder about the difference between American Atheists and Stalin. I can picture American atheists shooting Christians in the back of the head because they don't like what they say about the Beatles.

Here's a difference. Muslim extremists fly planes into buildings and kill thousands. Christians don't.

[-YYZ-]

Their music lives on, their politics are forgotten. I judge music by the way it sounds, not by the views held my its makers. The Beatles produced some of the all time great pop songs, and nothing you can say or do will change that. You're a crank.

[SamAdams76]

Before Harry Potter, there was...The Beatles.

Jeez, what a load of crap. And posting it on this day is completely tasteless. I've grew up with Beatles music, not to mention Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and all those punk bands from the late 1970s. And despite all of this evil rock and roll music, I still grew up to be a conservative and a card-carrying member of the VRWC and NRA. And yeah, I have read Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings too.

[Hari_Seldon]

"Here's a difference. Muslim extremists fly planes into buildings and kill thousands. Christians don't."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! You're joking, right???? Christians have never killed in the name of God?????

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

[babble-on]

At least you didn't mention THE WHO, then you would have gone over the edge for sure.

[GB]

Please tell me where the Beatles espoused communism (go buy a copy of Revolver and listen to George's song "Taxman")? Except for one silly line from John Lennon in an interview ... and he told the truth, sadly ... and the line in the song "Imagine" which was post-Beatles, please tell me where the Beatles specifically advocated turning away from God? As far as the drugs, yes, guilty as charged ... but try to find anyone of that era, left or right, all the way up to the White House, who didn't dabble in it? Good luck. It was just the way things were then, and I personally don't hold that against anyone, again either of the left or right. I didn't care if Clinton inhaled, I didn't care if Gore liked his weed and I didn't care if Bush might have done a line of blow along the way. That was then, this is now. It's irrelevant and an impossible standard to hold people of that generation to.

[AppyPappy]

Stalin killed millions in the name of State-Sponsored Atheism. Mao came in a close second. But I guess that's nothing compared to the half dozen witches in Salem.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

George Harrison reincarnated BEFORE he died ?

Man, that's heavy.

[Hari_Seldon]

"I guess that's nothing compared to the half dozen witches in Salem."

...or the Crusades. Or the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland killing each other, just to name a few.

Get a clue.

[GB]

You nailed it. The Beatles ENTERTAINED me, have since I was six years old (and I'm 43 now). I never got into looking at them as icons or role models. It's all about the music. If someone doesn't like them, fine. That's his right. I don't like bananas; that doesn't mean I want to stop people who like bananas from eating them. I just think the piling on here is crass and cruel. Only George Harrison and God knew the exact status of their relationship. That is how it should be.

[AppyPappy]

Not even close to millions.

Your logic is similar to the guy saying that the Holocaust was OK because "Jews killed people in the past too".

[atlaw]

Talent, you say? Musical, but lets leave it at that.

Well, considering they were a band, musical talent was really all they needed.

They also brought communism, drugs, and the whole "do it if it feels good" crap that has ruined the ability of Christians to practice in this country. They preached turning from God and being anarchists.

I thought Harry Potter was responsible.

[be-baw]

yawn

[babble-on]

Noooooooooobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!
Our main weapon is FEAR! FEAR and surprise! Our main weapons are Fear and Surprise and an almost fanatical devotion to the pope.. AMONGST OUR WEAPONRY:.....

yes, there were the crusades, also the English civil war, assorted pogroms over a 1500 year period (HEP! HEP!). I bet I missed a few, too.

[mitchbert]

George Harrison financed Monty Python’s vile and blasphemous Life of Brian

How utterly pathetic.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"...hald a dozen witches in Salem..."You mean a half a dozen innocent women in Salem? And the ones killed by the Inquisition in Spain, then we could talk about Oliver Cromwell, and the ongoing problems Catholics and Protestants keep having in Ireland, or the Crusades, then there were all those missionaries colonizing the New World, you know, the "convert or die" group...

[babble-on]

did he say CHEESEMAKERS?

[GB]

I agree, obsession with the Beatles is unhealthy. But for people to criticize and hammer those of us who are in mourning today is wrong as well.

I'm not that much older than you, 43, but I most certainly "got" the Beatles. I guess I had the advantage of having teenage aunts who played the music for me when I was 6 and it grabbed me hook, line and sinker and I've never looked back.

I have to ask ... what music did you listen to in those days, that kept you from "getting" the Beatles.

The thing is, in my experience, younger kids very easily "get" the Beatles. I have two boys, ages 4 and 7, and I have just about worn out my Beatle CDs entertaining them, and my eldest can sing the ENTIRE "Help" album, start to finish.

BTW, they also sing in the children's choir at church. I fail to see where the two are mutually exclusive.

And as far as "changing" people's lives ... the way the Beatles changed popular music when they hit in 1964 had the same impact, IMHO, as if someone from Mars had landed here. It was that big a deal, compared to what came before them, and continues to influence music until this very day ... rock, country, pop and in some ways jazz.

[Elihu Burritt]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! You're joking, right???? Christians have never killed in the name of God????? </>

Do you consider W to be a Christian?