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	Lennon 'Jesus' quote mag auctioned

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9-17-2009 3:03 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f2f1eda8-595f-4f6d-ad99-61becb14dbb7/AC21C084-97D5-43AC-9039-029AA3C2B894/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090917/tuk-lennon-jesus-quote-mag-auctioned-6323e80.html" href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090917/tuk-lennon-jesus-quote-mag-auctioned-6323e80.html" style="font-size: 11px;">uk.news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090917/tuk-lennon-jesus-quote-mag-auctioned-6323e80.html">A 1966 magazine signed by John Lennon containing his remark that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus has been sold for 12,713 US dollars (£7,711).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090917/tuk-lennon-jesus-quote-mag-auctioned-6323e80.html"><P id="ynw-article-part2">An orthopaedic surgeon at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Centre made the winning bid in a 17-day online auction run by RR Auction of Amherst, New Hampshire.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090917/tuk-lennon-jesus-quote-mag-auctioned-6323e80.html"><P>Lennon signed "John C Lennon" above his photograph in the September 1966 issue of Datebook, even though his middle initial is W for Winston.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090917/tuk-lennon-jesus-quote-mag-auctioned-6323e80.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/uk.news.yahoo.com/img/761ABB0E-23CC-4A0B-BCA4-DC4AC79E6B81" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090917/tuk-lennon-jesus-quote-mag-auctioned-6323e80.html"><P>In the magazine, Lennon said: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first - rock'n'roll or Christianity."</P><P>His comment provoked much anti-Beatles sentiment in the United States.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AC21C084-97D5-43AC-9039-029AA3C2B894/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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