"I don't know who was the most stupid: John Lennon for making that notorious and fatuous remark or the superstitious idiots who were offended by it."

... then there was "The Life of Brian" - in the opening scenes it was made very clear that Brain WAS NOT Jesus... but that didn't stop the 'self-Righteous' from claiming they were offended.

The target of the satirical attack was human behaviour - such as "the sandal or the gourd", the committees, "what have the Romans done for us?" etc. Probably those claiming to be offended on behalf of the Church saw only their own human reflections...