# John lennon and the beatles **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 17, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennon-and-the-beatles/603190 "2011-11-17T00:43:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GeddyClaypoolBurton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce7236/32.png) [@GeddyClaypoolBurton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GeddyClaypoolBurton)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennon-and-the-beatles/603190/1 "2011-11-17T00:43:30Z")
I am huge fan of John Lennon and the Beatles. I was recentlydoing some research on pseudoscience and I found this fundamentalist Christianpreacher who wrote this article in an obscure newsletter in 1981 after JohnLennon died calling The Beatles “sub-human demonistic creatures"because John Lennon was not a Christian. I personally am agnostic, and Irealized that this was just a hateful intolerant statement, but for some reasonevery time I want to listen to the Beatles now I can’t help but think of thatinsult; I feel as though I can’t disprove that the Beatles were"demons” the same way I can’t disprove leprechauns exist or don’texist - even though I know both statements to be absurd. Please, I just want tolisten to my heroes without having these horrible thoughts in my head. What canI do? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennon-and-the-beatles/603190/2 "2011-11-17T00:59:52Z")
Welcome to the board, **GeddyClaypoolBurton**. [Since you already started a topic about this in MPSIMS](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14471698), I’m going to close this one. We ask that people not start threads on the same topic in multiple forums.