A born-gaagain christian, and h quits drugs and rock and roll and in particular john lennon. i became a christian, and that lasted about a year of genuine walking with him. through my life off and on, i have struggled with different things as we all do, and at those times, i would turn to the lord. chapman s newfound faith comes into conflict with his feelings about his former idol. accord t according to friends, chapman was notably bothered by lennon s songs god in which he states that he does not believe in jesus, and the hit imagine and he said, imagine there s no countries and religion, too and chapman wrote the lyric s s to song altering imagine john lennon dead. the defendant claimed that he was offended by the statement that john lennon had made that the beatles had become more popular than jesus christ.