Ringo Starr Rejects Vatican Move to Forgive Beatles

I'll introduce myself by saying I'm a drummer.
And that it is my opinion, that Ringo is perhaps the greatest drummer of the century.
So many people may stop me at this point, and say that he doesn't sound as good as some other band.
To that I say, that we must understand. He was not playing with "Yes" or Led Zepplin or anything like that.
He played what was best for the song. If Jimi Hendrix played some of his big stuff on top of "in my life" he would have ruined it. Just as a great lead guitarist would, Ringo played what waas tasteful and fit with the songg. Liston to "come together" or "Something" or Nowhere man' or any number of other great beatles songs. Sure some other drummer could play a routine, but could they truly enhance the song to the ears of the listeners?
By the way, I like what Ringo said.

The Pope did no favors with this "blessing". Reminds me of the insight (and ignorance)of Jerry Falwell when he said the one Tellie Tubbie was an advocate for gays. It seems he is determined to make himself irrelevant. My parents raised me in the Roman Church, but I find the Eastern (Greek)Catholic and the various Christian Orthodox Churches much more spiritual and sensible about many things, not the least of which is celibacy.

I see nothing that the Beatles need to be forgiven for; the fact of the matter is, The Beatles indeed were more popular than Jesus...and Lennon was not making a judgement on that, he was only stating the case.

He's right, the Vatican has FAR more troublesome things to be worrying about than supposedly "forgiving" the Beatles; rampant pedophilia, for example. Besides, forgiving them for WHAT? Talking about the hypocrisy of much of organized religion, this "forgiveness" being a perfect case in point? Lennon's infamous "Jesus interview" was blown all out of proportion. He was merely (and stupidly) commenting on what he perceived to be my generations' lack of religious faith when he said the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. The Vatican had better take Jesus's advice and instead of wanting to remove the speck in their brothers' eyes, first removing said specks from theirs!

Good for Ringo! Who cares that some moron in a silly costume, who represents a group of odd child molesters forgives them??? The Beatles didn't molest any kids, never orchestrated crusades in the name of religion, never tried to "enlighten" other countries through violence, or bilked suckers out of billions of dollars in donations based on a fairy tale.

Yet, THEY'RE the ones doing the forgiving??? Please.

whats so bad is that ht statement Jhon made was in fact totallly correct BUT it was taken totally outof context of the meaning that it was supposed to have been made. At the time, THE BEATLES were more popular than Jesus Christ. It was meant , i thnk , that if you put Jesus in a theater across the street from a theater where the BEATLES were to perform, an overwhelming majority of the people would have attended the concert and NOT the preaching. Theres nothing wrong with the statement because it was true at the time. The guys just got burned at the stake for telling the truth which goes to prove the mentality of the country at the time of their popularity. You could probably say the same thing about some of the country or rock entertainers now BUT they wont say that because of the backlash of what happened to these guys. As far as the Satanic references, think of KISS and other entertainers that have come after THE BEATLES. Same thing has been said about them.

Way to go, Ringo.

Forgiveness is highly overrated and usually a form of self-bullying or self-hypnosis. Fear of not forgiving, and thereby incurring some nebulous awful consequences, is another boogyman put out there by the offenders. Do not let the threat become self-fulfilling. Victims should not be pressured into performing the emotional and mental contortions needed to forgive the unforgivable. Nothing bad will happen to you if you respect your valid hatred. Feel it, validate it, then go on with your day. Live honestly with the offense and offenders - the thoughts and emotions will not consume you. But lying to yourself about how your really feel WILL make you sick.

Ringo's all wrong. The Beatles were brilliant but they're in no position to presume to claim to be more morally upright than anyone else.

My comment was directed to the stupid things Shelia said.