At the height of Beatlemania John Lennon stated the Beatles as being more popular than Jesus. Decades on is this true?
Following the tradition of using the internet to make a "clear" observation I headed straight for the fan pages of the ever popular Facebook.
The page “I love Jesus” has 1,396,949 fans. Meanwhile “The Beatles” pages has 1,453,118. In the modern times it is showing that more people are Beatles fans than, Christians. Is that a fair comment? Or can it be assumed that people who are practicing Christians would prefer to buy the bible as their dedication rather than just becoming a “fan” on Facebook. The Bible is believed to have sold up to 6 billion copies, a hefty amount and most probably an incorrect figure unless, of course this is throughout the period of bibles existence? The Beatles factually have sold 600million albums, countless sold out concerts and still have many avid fans.
So is Christianity dying out? Probably not. Just because a band has a huge following, it doesn't mean that religion is being overthrown and over powered by music. Music is a new religion, more people listen to music than believe in the existence of God. The Beatles weren't really ever saying that they personally were bigger than Jesus, just music itself.
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A cold statistical analysis.
ReplyDeletePerhaps a similar stridently rational approach could be used to debunk internet conspiracy theories, eg that Paul McCartney is dead and being impersonated by an actor.
But facebook has just over 200,000,000 users... so it's impossible that Jesus has a billion fans! I just had a look for myself...
ReplyDelete"I Love Jesus" (the largest group)
1,396,862 fans
"The Beatles"
1,452,946 fans
Just been re-checking it, yesterday, my facebook was showing odd figures, needless to say I will re-write with correct figures. Thanks.
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