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When I started writing, I learned why. Froggy carried weapons to fight monsters. Am I dramatic? I can’t divulge everything in one sitting, but I can tell you of a few demons I encounter regularly. I fight with them every day. They are insidious, so I had to be vigilant.

In a 1969 interview, Lennon said, “I’m one of Christ’s biggest fans. And if I can turn the focus on the Beatles on to Christ’s message, then that’s what we’re here to do.’’

Some of the Beatles’ most essential songs, including “Let it Be’’ and “Hey Jude’’ (written mainly by Lennon partner Paul McCartney, baptized a Catholic), are similarly praised for their Christian messages.

Lennon’s 1971 hit “Imagine,’’ is considered an “anthem for atheists’’ with questions about imagining existing without Heaven or religion. Nearly a half-century later, four decades after Lennon’s death, worship services around the world would be halted due to a global pandemic.
When I was eight, my granny would come to visit once or twice a year. She was in her seventies, and it wasn’t easy for her to get around. It was a joy to have her visit. I pleaded with her to sing me my favorite song, and she always did: Froggy Went a Courtin’. I loved it. I felt everything right in the world flow through me when she sang it. Back then, I wondered why Froggy carried a sword and a pistol by his side?
Harrison’s warnings about forgetting about God are unsettling in the far more secular world of the 21st century. Harrison reminds us the world attacked Lennon (like Jesus), for the way he taught a seldom-listening world how to love one another.

It was only a month ago when I discovered my first Zombie Noun. I had seen them everywhere; I didn’t know what they were. I was frightened, but I wasn’t completely helpless. I took a sample of my writing into a tool that could detect zombies. I plugged in words and watched in horror as the zombie meter pegged to the right.

Lennon had his own debate with God, enraging believers by saying in 1966 that the Beatles were “bigger than Jesus’’ then backtracking, insisting that he only meant to say the Beatles had more daily influence on young people.

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What is striking about hearing “All Those Years Ago’’ on the radio is how much it’s a song of faith and belief. It’s sung for and about Lennon. It also sounds like a song about Jesus or a Christ-like figure. The message is jarring.

Today, Lennon’s killer is called a mentally ill fan. But Harrison, in a phrase seldom spoken outside churches today, describes Lennon’s killer as “the devil’s best friend’’ and a man “who offended all.’’

The first Christians are also called The Way. The song goes on about giving and showing “the way to the truth’’ in Lennon songs like “All you need is love.’’ The Way to Love and Truth, of course, is the core teaching of Christianity.
Harrison’s warnings about forgetting about God are unsettling in the far more secular world of the 21st century. Harrison reminds us the world attacked Lennon (like Jesus), for the way he taught a seldom-listening world how to love one another.
“Robert Frank, the economist, did these studies where he literally found that if students study standard neoliberal economics” based on the self-interest model, Bregman says, then those students “become more selfish. These theories create the kind of people that they presuppose.”Yet, this song calling out the importance of God and the threats of the devil make it entirely unlike anything you will hear in modern pop music. And it is perhaps as bold or bolder than any popular Christian song.It’s going to be easy for those self-interested economists to distort Bregman’s core message of “Humankind” into cheap shots for Twitter arguments. He’s not saying you should leave your keys in your unlocked car on the street the next time you go to the grocery store. Instead, Bregman says that if we approach our understanding with the idea that most people are fundamentally decent and cooperative, a whole host of possibilities emerge.

Lennon, ironically, was struck down on December 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, marking the belief that God chose to allow Mary, the Mother of God, to be conceived free of original sin from the moment she was conceived.

Bregman is arguing that Smith has people’s intentions wrong. While Smith claims that a society is made up of individuals looking out for themselves, Bregman says that instead societies are made up of interconnected individuals operating in concert. Those butchers, brewers, and bakers aren’t perfectly rational capitalists carving their fiefdoms out of the world using selfishness as their guide. Instead, they’re members of a society who perform their specialized tasks with the expectation that others will do the same for them.

You might scoff at this subtle distinction and argue that the intention has no bearing on the end result: who cares what the butcher thinks, so long as she has fresh cuts of meat in her case every day at an affordable price? Bregman argues that intent is everything: if you’re taught that economies are powered by selfishness and ruthless competition, you’re more likely to act selfishly and ruthlessly in your transactions.

Like many artists and like St. Augustine, Lennon saw the attraction to surrendering to God, though “not yet.’’ Both Lennon and Harrison would take a five-year hiatus from recording music only to return to the studio before each died (Lennon in 1980 and Harrison in 2001).

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