Within minutes of emerging from his tomb sized cell on 21 April 21 2004, Vanunu announced, "I am not harming Israel. I am not interested in Israel. I want to tell you something very important. I suffered here 18 years because I am a Christian, because I was baptized into Christianity. If I was a Jew I wouldn't have all this suffering here in isolation for 18 years. Only because I was a Christian man."
In the summer of
'66, it was reported in the U.S. that John Lennon had made a comment to a
friend and reporter that the Beatles were more popular with my generation than
Jesus was.
I agreed with him, for my friends and I knew every lyric to every Beatles song,
but nobody ever quoted Jesus. Lennon made me think about my own hypocrisy, and
on a Saturday afternoon in July, immediately after the ritual of weekly
confession while I knelt at the altar and mindlessly repeated the same old
prayers as the week prior, in the middle of the three Our Fathers and ten Hail
Mary's, it hit me like a light! Those words that I uttered never changed
anything, and I got up and walked out, convinced I was doomed for hell, for I
had failed at Confession!
I never doubted there was a God, but as Lennon said and I still believe, "That
what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and
Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the
translations have gone wrong"Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick
and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
Lennon said and sang, "You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever
you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's
all down to you, mate...All we are saying is give peace a chance...All you need
is love...Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a
dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world
will be as one...Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
The Beatles - Revolution (Live)
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