Loading ...Apparently, the Beatles truly are more popular than Jesus — at least on Google.
The number of people searching for the Fab Four is higher than the number of people seeking the Messiah, according to this report.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 2:00 pm
The reasons are simple, why Beatles win over Jesus. 1) Beatles are for entertainment temporarily for this world and Christ is for sacrifice temporarily for this world, but enjoyment eternally. People who like instant pleasure, rather than saving for future enjoyment would vote for Beatles. I am not surprised for the results, specifically for countries where Churches remain empty in Sunday but concerts places are packed with people. We also must not forget that Christ was sentenced to death by voice count by the people who were present during His trial in King Herod’s court.
Person to person popularity survey makes sense but person to God popularity survey is non-sense, it is like comparison with apple and orange. This survey is propaganda tools for atheist.
September 24th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Nope, Julian, fraid not. The Beatles’ recordings have just been re-issued in various forms, and the publisher has been beating the bushes getting publicity for the $300+ boxed set. That’s why there’s a temporary spike in the Beatles’ popularity. Three months from now, Jesus will be a more popular search term than the Beatles, in spite of everything you wrote. He’s been a more consistently popular search term than the Beatles prior to this publicity effort, and will no doubt continue to be so. Remember, this is not a popularity contest, but merely a measure of which name, “Jesus,” vs. “The Beatles” gets searched more on Google.
As far as this being a propaganda tool for the atheists, fraid not again. It’s a propaganda tool for the Beatles’publisher, which might well be run by atheists, but which no doubt has a Christian publishing arm as well, which probably doesn’t bring in as much money as the Beatles do, so in a perverse way, buying the Beatles’ box set might well help the Christian music part of the business stay afloat, too. Life is complicated.
September 24th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Didn’t Michael Jackson own half of the catalog of Beatles’ songs?
September 25th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Perplexed, he may have owned all of it.
September 25th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Jackson owned the publishing rights to most of the Beatles catalog, paying him half the royalties. The songwriter rights remained with the Beatles themselves, who received the other half of the royalties.
http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/jackson.asp
And the beat goes on.