I was brought up (very) Catholic in the fifties and sixties and was taught that the planets moved round the sun and about the theory of evolution. Creationism and the flat earth theory would have been laughed out of my school and any other catholic school I knew.

I personally preferred John Lennon to Jesus because his tunes were so much better and I don't remember his remark sparking any sort of reaction except when we saw the news from America where you were all a bit mad anyway. It was taken for what it was, an unimportant throwaway remark in an interview. In any case I was used to people talking rubbish, I'd had years of Catholic theology pumped into me