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the young radicals in their an-
nounced plans not only to destroy VI * « VMI . • • t M »» a W **
Western culture, but to dethrone *ja - -
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- The Beatles:
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A Study in Drugs, Hath. * ** . *
Sex and Revolution. ”
That’s from one of Noebcl’ s books 40
devoted entirely to the Beatles. The
other is Communism. Hypnotism and }r 3
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the Beatles. Two books? This seems to
be evidence, I told Rev. Noebel, that
you really consider them a threat, even
though they have split and moved in -.' RHYTHM. RIOTS
their individual directions. ”1 just went
down to the store,” he says, "and all the and REVOLUTION
Beatles are still intact. They ' re still
selling Sgt. Pepper ' s Lonely Hearts Club
Band, which was dripping in drugs, so by DAVID A. NOEBEL
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how can you say that if they split that MlMAI O. *• * Bill * ( » *.. !« •" . I
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those records still aren’t going to influ-
ence young people?” I hadn ’t said that The book missing is called Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles.
but I moved on and asked his opinion of
John Lennon (who draws the most • r
verbal abuse in his books). “Really,” he “Desecrating ” is included in his opin -
says m a voice as serious as Whiteman’s, GOD S ion of Jesus Christ, Superstar. The other
“the key leader of the Beatles for all ’ adjectives are, in alphabetical order:
those years was John Lennon, and anti-Christian, apostate, blasphemous,
Lennon is still a very potent force irreverent, profane and sacreligious. I
today. He is recognized as one of the c4NSWER thought this the height of redundancy
heroes of the Left. He has come out but he replied he would have added “a
with ‘Working Class Hero’ which is for few more words” if he had SEEN the
the Marxist-Leninist revolution, which play . His opinion, he admitted, was
he admitted in his Rolling Stone inter - based on Time ' s review and the written
view. I would say they are still a potent i transcript. “It just isn’t Scriptural,” he
force to be reckoned with. I wish they * wailed, “they’re just wrong in every
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would all be converted to Christ, take basic point of Bible. Rice Webber just
all their records off the stands and start brought their own preconceived,
over again. ” r humanistic Christ to the fore.” He
Harrison had not become a Jesus singled out his dislikes: “Makes the
Supper, makes Christ not sure of him-
freak but you might consider him the apostles look like idiots at the Last
“religious” one of the four, I men- | I
tioned. “Well, he’s hooked up in the self, blames God the Father for the
Eastern metaphysical area. Of course, I Crucifixion, and tries to get Judas off
don’t believe that’s the answer to the I the hook.”
world’s problems. It certainly hasn’t * AOUMtlMCMrtAM PV * HAT * * He decided not to write about
been the answer to India’s problems, in
fact that ’ s one of the hindrances “And Hair is drawn straight from Jerry Godspell, in a similar pamphlet, but did -
India right now.” They have “more beef Rubin. " (This guy may know something do one on Hair. Hair pushes playboy
after alL)
on the hoof ’ than we have in the U. S., love. God condemns it. Playboy-love is •
Noebel says, but people still are begin with, you see, and they sort of one mile wide and l/64th of an inch
deep.” A strange analogy, I thought -
starving. “But where Christianity has took it over from that subculture, so I -
gone those problems go out with it. ” would protest that word.” 1 argued that - an abstract concept as a spatial relation
ship. I asked him to explain further.
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the term freak has become more gener
Yes, we are a Christian, meat eating
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nation, I thought to myself, wondering alized and shouldn’t be taken as a Very easily done, he says. Hair is to
what it all meant. put down. It was a moot point not music what Jerry Rubin’s book Do It! is
to literature.” (Let’s see now, 1 had
worth following, so I didn’t. He knew
Jesus freaks. Hmmmm. Now here
was something 1 had to ask him about. that many “Jesus people ” had found elementary logic, a is to b as c is to d; if
deliverance from drugs through Christ
He must approve of them, but at the but he stopped far short of endorsing a*c, then b*d. I think I have it.)
“Exactly what Rubin is pushing in Do
same time, even THEY like rock music. the policy of “uniting rock music with It! is being pushed in Hair, including
First of all, Noebel said, he didn ' t Gospel words. I think it is a bad omen, 1 promiscuity, drugs and the whole hippie
like the expression Jesus “freak” be - think it is dangerous.” He compared it subculture, and I’m against the whole
cause he considered it a derogatory to the “early chuch of Corinth which hippie subculture for many many
term. “Really, they were drug freaks to desecrated the Lord’s Supper.” reasons. ” Yes, I had it all right.
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