Pastor David L. Brown, Ph.D. #fundie logosresourcepages.org

Communism and the overthrow of authority in songs such as "Revolution No. 9," "Working Class Hero," Back in the USSR," "Power to the People," "Sometime in New York City," "Give Peace a Chance," "Bloody Sunday" (which called British police "Anglo pigs"), "Attica State" ("now's the time for revolution"), "Angela" (which glorified communist Angela Davis), and "Piggies." Lennon performed at anti-America rallies and called upon America to leave Vietnam to the communists. He said: "I really thought that love would save us. But now I'm wearing a Chairman Mao badge, that's where it's at. I'm just beginning to think he's doing a good job" (Lennon, cited by Wenner, Lennon Remembers, p. 86). All of them were heavily into immorality. Perhaps Ringo Star put it best: "We got drunk a lot. You couldn't help it. We had a lot of girls. We soon realized that they were easy to get" (TV Guide, July 29, 1978, p. 21). McCartney said: "We didn't all get into music for a job! We got into it to avoid a job, in truth-and get lots of girls."

I think that David Noebel summarized the influence of the Beatles the best. While he was specifically talking about John Lennon, it does apply to the entire group the way I see it. He said on "the present rock 'n' roll scene, Lennon's legacy, is one giant, multi-media portrait of degradation-a sleazy world of immorality, venereal disease, anarchy, nihilism, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, death, Satanism, perversion, and orgies" (The Legacy of John Lennon, by David Noebel, 1982, p. 15).

The Beatles are NOT great hero, role models that should be emulated, but rather shunned as I inciters of rebellion and corrupters of our culture.

I proffer Psalm 1 in conclusion

"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish."

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