He once passed a comment saying the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, was he religious? You know both religiously and politically, Lennon was a storm of controversy from his young years in working-class environs to his violent death in 1980’s New York City.
He was baptized, as most young English children are, in an Anglican/Episcopalian church. Argh! But by the time he was a teenager, Lennon had been banned from his church because of laughing at a sermon.