More popular than Jesus don't believe in Jesus", but also sang that he did not believe in the Bible, Buddha, the "Gita", and the Beatles. Critics of Lennon's lyrics have also focused on the line "Imagine there's no heaven" from his 1971 song "Imagine". Lennon was murdered on 8 December 1980 by Mark David Chapman, who had become a born-again Christian in 1970 and was incensed by Lennon's "more popular than Jesus" remark, calling it blasphemy. He later stated that he was further enraged by the songs "God" and "Imagine", even singing the latter with the altered lyric: "Imagine John Lennon dead". Notes Citations
There's More Than One of Everything originally meant to be revealed earlier in the first season, but the writers changed their minds as the show progressed. In early April 2009, "Entertainment Weekly" announced that "Star Trek" actor Leonard Nimoy had been cast as Bell. He and "Fringe" co-creator J.J. Abrams already had a relationship after working together on the 2009 film "Star Trek"; Abrams stated in an interview that he called Nimoy and begged him to join "Fringe", explaining the show and the character. Nimoy sounded interested but wanted to become more familiar with the show, so Abrams and the other producers sent him as much