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Line 9: − + − − == Poor family life == − − There are several reports of John Lennon treating his family cruelly.<ref>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/item_CiGDOKXUtPlMvbNoopX1lN</ref><ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/21/sean-lennon-opens-up-abou_n_128028.html</ref><ref>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/item_CiGDOKXUtPlMvbNoopX1lN;jsessionid=7A5FA32FA32BEDF9593D1ECEF1DE7AE4</ref> For example, Sean Lennon reported that his father screamed so loud in his ear that he damaged his ear and he had to go to the hospital.<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/21/sean-lennon-opens-up-abou_n_128028.html</ref> − +
he was never a critic of it, what he said was true, stuff aka idols have become more popular than Jesus, which is bad, people care more about money, sex, politics and other things more than Jesus.
After a self-imposed five-year break from music to focus on his family and raising his young son Sean, Lennon produced a new album with his [[Japan]]ese wife [[Yoko Ono]] in 1980, entitled ''Double Fantasy''. Less than a month after its release Lennon was shot dead outside his apartment building by a crazed fan named [[Mark David Chapman]].
After a self-imposed five-year break from music to focus on his family and raising his young son Sean, Lennon produced a new album with his [[Japan]]ese wife [[Yoko Ono]] in 1980, entitled ''Double Fantasy''. Less than a month after its release Lennon was shot dead outside his apartment building by a crazed fan named [[Mark David Chapman]].
Lennon's most famous individual work is "[[Imagine]]", a song that beseeches the listener to imagine a world without greed, religion, war, and hatred, but one governed by love, where all people are "living life in peace." At the end of the song Lennon encourages the listener to join him in dreaming of this Godless world.
Lennon's most famous individual work is "[[Imagine]]", a song that beseeches the listener to imagine a world without greed, religion, war, and hatred, but one governed by love, where all people are "living life in peace." At the end of the song Lennon encourages the listener to join him in dreaming of this world.
He remains a hero in [[Britain]], where he was ranked in the top 10 of the 2002 "100 Greatest Britons" poll sponsored by the BBC.
He remains a hero in [[Britain]], where he was ranked in the top 10 of the 2002 "100 Greatest Britons" poll sponsored by the BBC.
In June of 2007, ''Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur'' was released. The album, whose proceeds went to [[Amnesty International]]'s campaign on behalf of Sudan's war-torn province of Darfur, featured artists of yesterday and today, such as U2, REM, Green Day, and Corinne Bailey Raye covering Lennon's work.
In June of 2007, ''Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur'' was released. The album, whose proceeds went to [[Amnesty International]]'s campaign on behalf of Sudan's war-torn province of Darfur, featured artists of yesterday and today, such as U2, REM, Green Day, and Corinne Bailey Raye covering Lennon's work.
== Religious views ==
== Religious views ==
Lennon's most famous quote in criticism of [[Christianity]] was in 1966:
Lennon's most famous quote regarding the dying state of [[Christianity]] was in 1966:
* 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 and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
* 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 and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.