“My views on Christianity are directly influenced by a book, The Passover Plot by Hugh J. Schonfield. The premise in it is that Jesus’ message had been garbled by his disciples and twisted for a variety of self-serving reasons by those who followed, to the point where it has lost validity for many in the modern age.”
- John Lennon, The Boston Globe, reported on Dec. 12, 1980
A detailed discussion of John Lennon’s relationship to Schonfield’s thinking at UCLA
