Are the Beatles bigger than Jesus?
The vatican recently commented on the supposed quote from John Lennon when he claimed that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. Well to be fair to Lennon he didn’t actually say that the beatles were better or bigger than Jesus but just that they had a bigger influence on teenagers in the U.K. at the time, and he was probably right.
After 40 years I guess we ought to take stock and see if it is still true.
In the U.K. maybe the beatles are still big but there are plenty of young people who know nothing about them or who have never listened to their music. In certain generations, however, there are probably more people who listen to the beatles than who pick up a bible to read.
However more people will listen to modern popular music today than will go into a church so perhaps the situation is even more stark today than it was then.
Of course worldwide the Christian Church is still growing fast and shows no signs of dissapearing. The only place we see a real decline is in western europe. Are europeans just not interested or perhaps it is rebellion against the way the church in western europe had behaved in the past. However recent surveys suggest that people are as interested in Jesus as they ever were.
