ANTI-BEATLES MOBS THEN & TEABAGGERS TODAY--------->

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Is there any real difference between today's teabaggers and the anti-Beatle mobs of 1966?


1966: Bible Belt vs Beatles





"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 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

Radio stations in the south banned Beatles music. There were rallies of boys and girls stomping on their records and bonfires of Beatles material. John recieved death threats, and the KKK protestsed a Beatle concert in Alabama (because, apparently, it seemed like the Christian thing to do).

This statement, hardly noticed in the UK, was completely taken out of context and the bible belt of the hypocritical southern states was used to beat Lennon and The Beatles in a very unfair and very non-Christian way. John was not comparing the Beatles to Christ or god or religion. The quote as it appears here, IN CONTEXT, is just John being John and using things he knew about in a way he naturally spoke to a friend/reporter. The Jesus lovers, acting in their best Christ-like behaviour, threatened to kill John.

Who says terrorism is limited to radical Islam?

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How are things any different today, with the Teabaggers threatening Obama?

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1. beatles are mor popular than jesus cuz they loved by ppl of all/no religions lol nt

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2. The same kind of threats heard then we're hearing now

"Obama is Satan. He must be stopped."

We've seen the vitriolic signs.

[RagAss]

10. ...and they actually existed.

[Grand Taurean]

3. Any different than the anti-civil rights thugs and the thugs who boycotted the Dixie Chicks?

Same group of reactionary thugs.

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8. Whether it's Lennon's comment then or Obama's modest healthcare proposals now ...

The reaction is the same ... hysterical overreaction.

And its the leaders who incite their followers, invoking Armageddon and calling for some kind of holy war.

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4. The difference is that Obama actually is Jesus

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13. But George W. Bush, if you recall, answered to a higher father

when deciding to go to war against Iraq.

[ZeitgeistObserver]

5. Same crowd, next generation.

The opposite of the hippies back then.

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6. an old friend of mine was (and is) a big fan of the Beatles, John in particular, and yet...

she's a tea bagger.

go figure. :shrug:

i think it's safe to say that she's got issues she really can't admit since i never heard her voicing her opinions on fiscal responsibility and the constitution until Barack Obama won the democratic nomination.

by old friend, i mean former friend too. i can't be friends with someone that feels the way she does.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. Same bunch of assholes who don't understand subtlety.

I'm glad Ringo said that "the Vatican has a lot more to talk about than the Beatles do".

YAY RINGO!!!

[chollybocker]

9. 10 years of the Beatles brought more joy and peace to the world...

...than 1700 years of Christianity.

Funny that those '66 protests were PRE- Sgt. Pepper, White Album, etc.

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11. Well it was around the same time as Revolver, the Beatles'

first psychedelic album.

So between John's Jesus comment, the Beatles' finally speaking out about Vietnam, and the drug songs (Dr. Robert, She Said She Said, Tomorrow Never Knows) ... it seems to have been the perfect storm, the summer of '66.

[chollybocker]

14. True. But the "bigger than Jesus" comment...

...was the spark that the fundies needed to piggy-back on the great popularity of the Beatles.

Then, John was forced to apologize *to the entire world* for something that he never meant in the first place.

What innocent times. Just like today. ;)

[Cha]

12. That last sentence sums it up nicely how I feel.

"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 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

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15. Ringo Starr tells Vatican to 'Get Back'

Ringo Starr tells Vatican to 'Get Back'; dismisses effort to 'forgive' The Beatles

By Michael Sheridan
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, April 13th 2010, 12:11 PM

Beatles, a band Pope Benedict XVI once suggested was 'satanic.'
Ringo Starr is saying "Hello, Goodbye" to the Vatican's effort to hold hands with The Beatles.

The formerly mop-topped drummer has brushed off the Catholic Church, which attempted to praise the Fab Four and forgive singer John Lennon's boast that his famed band was "more popular than Jesus."

"Didn't the Vatican say we were satanic?" Starr said during an interview with CNN. "And they still forgive us?"

"I think has more to talk about than The Beatles," he added, alluding to the child sex abuse scandal that continues to plague the church.

The Vatican offered its latest peace offering to The Beatles in its recent issue of L'Osservatore Romano, its official newspaper, on Monday.

"It's true they took drugs, lived life to excess because of their success, even said they were bigger than Jesus and put out mysterious messages that were possibly even satanic," the newspaper said.

But, "what would pop music have been like without The Beatles?" it reasoned, describing the band's music as "beautiful."

The Vatican doesn't appear to be extending the same kind of olive branch to other popular bands, such as Pink Floyd, Queen, Black Sabbath and The Eagles.

In 1996, those groups were among several - including The Beatles - that Pope Benedict XVI warned youth against listening to when he was still a cardinal, claiming their music contained "subliminal" satanic influences.

Read more:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/04/13/2010-04-13_ringo_starr_to_vatican_get_back_on_forgiving_the_beatles.html