O Mein Gott, bewegt sich denn die Welt, seit DU zu ihr als Monty Python, John Lennon und Heinrich Heine gesprochen hast - und das ist nun schon wieder ziemlich lange her -, gar nicht mehr?



On March 4, 1966, in an interview printed in the London Evening Standard, John Lennon made the following statement:

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.

... American radio stations banned Beatles records. Some even went so far as to organize burning of Beatles records and photographs, and there were scenes of boys and girls jumping on Beatles records, holding burning Beatles photographs and grinning and holding banners that said "Jesus died for you John Lennon" and "John Lennon is Satan"!!!(We hear to this day that the Beatles were "Antichrists", but it seems like God was more like on the Beatles side, because one of the radio stations that organized the record burnings was hit by lightning the very next morning, which caused great damage to the stations equipment and reportedly knocked their news director unconscious!) A member of the Ku Klux Klan said that the Beatles had probably "been brainwashed by communists". With the Beatles American Tour only days away, Beatles manager Brian Epstein told the American Press that John's statement had been completely misinterpreted. But the people who were burning the records did not, or would not, listen and understand....
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Heinrich Heine: Almansor (1823)

Almansor:
Wir hörten daß der furchtbare Ximenes,
Inmitten auf dem Markte, zu Granada –
Mir starrt die Zung im Munde – den Koran
In eines Scheiterhaufens Flamme warf!

Hassan:
Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher
Verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.