The Religious Views Of The Beatles

Register to read the introduction… Since amendments were made to the ‘British Nationality law’ in the 1940s, people from the commonwealth islands (including India) had been immigrating to the UK for nearly 20 years – this meant that people of the Hindu and other religions had already introduced these faiths into British society and the world was already changing to be more cultural before the Beatles choice to follow them. The band only created higher popularity for these faiths amongst the population. Also their views on Christianity and Catholicism weren’t widely accepted; 1966 John Lennon made the statement the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus” which created uproar in America, especially in the south that are strong Catholics. Younger generations burned all their merchandise and refused to accept the band as role models again. There was no change here taken place, only rejection of the new – which opposes sources 17 and 18. However source 16 does support this: “the whole bourgeois system is exactly the same”, Lennon recognizes that they didn’t change the world due to religious or other …show more content…
Source 18 supports this thoroughly: “the Beatles changed the world in the sixties… twentieth century significant achievement”, source 17 also upkeeps the argument: “instantly chic for millions of fans who looked to the group for guidance”. But, it’s evident that the four men’s involvement with the Vietnam War protests were only echoing the public’s opinions, that drug use was popular before the band became famous and their religious views didn’t have an affect on the world – the Beatles only followed the crowd and their status expressed the issues. Which is again supported through both source 17 and 18: “although they seemed to be the leaders of the new youth culture, they were by no means its architects”, “innovators” and “spokespersons”. In conclusion I think you can see the shifting world influenced the Beatles views and opinions and it was their famous status that seemed to express new ideas to the youth and society – they gathered their anti-war, alternate religions and drug use by things they experienced happening in the moving world of the sixties. Source 16 also disagrees with the statement that the Beatles “changed the world in the sixties”, Lennon says, “nothing happened”, that the world was “exactly the same” and the band “dressed up”. Despite it seems he’s recognizing no change, he does notice the four men had a slight influence – “middle-class with long hair”, their trademark look was popular which they had adopted from the late 50s ‘mod’ fashion and the changing ‘hippie’ fashions. In conclusion, I don’t think the Beatles changed the world in the sixties, I