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Proving that Lennon is still as relevant and important as he ever was, in June of 2007, "Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Camapign to Save Darfur" was released. The album, whose proceeds go to Amnesty International's campaign to save the war-torn province of Sudan's Darfur, features artists of yesterday and today, such as U2, REM, Green Day, and Corinne Bailey Raye, covering Lennon's work. Given Lennon's activism and passion for peace, were he alive today, he would no doubt be the champion of the fight to stop the genocide in Sudan.
Proving that Lennon is still as relevant and important as he ever was, in June of 2007, "Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Camapign to Save Darfur" was released. The album, whose proceeds go to Amnesty International's campaign to save the war-torn province of Sudan's Darfur, features artists of yesterday and today, such as U2, REM, Green Day, and Corinne Bailey Raye, covering Lennon's work. Given Lennon's activism and passion for peace, were he alive today, he would no doubt be the champion of the fight to stop the genocide in Sudan.
== Political and Religious views ==
== Religious views ==
Lennon's famous quote in criticism 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.
* I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
* I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
[[Category:Musicians|Lennon, John]]
[[Category:Musicians|Lennon, John]]