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Vacationing with the Pagans

Watching the Beatles in fast-forward reminded me of just how far we've come in four decades.

Eric Miller | posted 9/04/2009 09:31AM

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Earlier Christianity Today articles on The Beatles include:

The Beatles' Spiritual Journeys | Steve Turner's The Gospel According to the Beatles. (Jan. 3, 2007)

John Lennon's Born-Again Phase | "Can He love me?" the former Beatle asked Oral Roberts. "I want out of hell." An excerpt from The Gospel According to the Beatles by Steve Turner. (Jan. 3, 2007)

Beatles' Spiritual Guru Dies | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of TM, passes away in the Netherlands. (blog post, Feb. 5, 2008)

The Dick Staub Interview: Alistair Begg on The Beatles | The author and pastor talks about the Fab Four's cry for Help and why no one answered it. (Apr. 22, 2003)

The Ballad of John and Jesus | Two books tell the story behind John Lennon's short-lived conversion. (June 12, 2000)

The CT Review: Rock & Roll Apologetics | A brief review of The Beatles, the Bible, and Bodega Bay. (Nov. 13, 2000)

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martinb

Posted: September 12, 2009 5:52 AM


Well, clearly this article is over the heads of quite a few people. I thought it started out great, but in trying to get to his conclusion the author simplified some things. For example, there has been a huge increase in spiritual exploration in the West in the last four decades - but not all of it has been Christian and therefore "correct" according to the author's and website's ideology.

Dave Myers

Posted: September 10, 2009 9:34 PM


This article doesn't seem to make any sense.

Bonnie Prince Charlie

Posted: September 10, 2009 4:56 PM

What frustrates me so much about the 60s is how critiques of normal, middle-class life were fought so stridently by so many Christians. If we had had any humility, we would have seen how sad a spectacle it was for us as religious people to be defending a horrible war, environmental destruction, racial prejudice, and, as the article says, the (proper, to be sure) enjoyment of the physical world that God made us for. I wonder how the world might have been different if we had not confused our lifestyles with being Godly and recognized that examining our lives and admitting error was not the same as rejecting God. What wound up happening, though, was the believers for the most part digging in their heels, and everybody else, in rejecting so-called religious values as they saw them, searching in vain to reinvent society, without God, without tradition, without a foundation. In short, the baby got thrown out with the bath water, and both Christians and non-believers are worse for it today.

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