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The Legacy of John Lennon: Charming or Harming a Generation?

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I thought this book would be interesting when I started reading it. It wasn't.

The author has no use for rock and roll music. There is no hint that he is any more favorable about Christian rock music, though when this came out, Dylan was in his Christian phase, and he did not condemn Dylan's Christian music.

There is rock that is pre-occupied with sex and drugs and the occult, but I find when someone gives a broad brush, they manage to condemn the innocent with the guilty. I remember when Kerry Livgern started AD that some said what the people want to hear is sex and drugs and rock-n-roll, and Livgern commented that his previous band, Kansas, hardly touched on the subject.

There is a need to sound an alarm. However, I found this to be a judgmental, condemning project, as opposed to one that is gently and humbly appealing to friends to turn from their errors.

Multi-millionaire rock star John Lennon, killed at age 40, typified the blatantly anti-Christian influences of many rock entertainers. A dedicated socialist, he nevertheless had accumulated vast sums of wealth while promoting "progressive" social causes. When Lennon died, he left behind a cultural legacy bedded in paganism and wedded to hedonism. The Soviet Union mourned his passing.

What is the truth about John Lennon? Was he, indeed, a champion of social causes? Or was he an enemy of traditional morality?

David Noebel is convinced that Lennon's influence - though often touted in behalf of freedom, justice, peace, and love - has had a devastating effect on American youth and Western values. Noebel has collected an impressive body of evidence to support this position, and his sources extend beyond the expected circle of like-minded conservatives. Noebel quotes extensively from entertainers and secular media to expose the cultural threat engendered by this musical propaganda.

"Do we want to live under a biblical code which combines love, sex, and morality?" challenges Noebel. "Or do we wish to replace this with a 'freer' moral code under which everyone is free to do his or her own thing? This is the crux of the matter. A choice between two lifestyles based on widely differing world views"
--- from book's dustjacket