In 1966, John Lennon gave an interview to the London Evening Standard in which he stated that Christianity was on the decline and that the Beatles were currently more popular than Jesus Christ.

We measure meme strength, how successfully is the idea of this person being propagated through time. With over two billion followers a full 2,000 years after his death, Jesus is an incredibly ...

Memes use formal language (Sir, this is an Arby’s!) and artificial endearment (“bestie”) all the time for humorous effect, and “my brother in Christ” does both at once.The whole point of ...

The popularity of the crucified Minion videos echoes that of the AI-generated “shrimp Jesus” meme, an unsettling amalgam of Jesus Christ and a crustacean that briefly went viral on Facebook, ...

Other social networks also confirm this trend. On Instagram, as of Wednesday morning there are 13,091,625 posts hashtagged with #jesus.But #meme isn’t far behind, with 12,912,976 posts.. This ...

Jesus Christ has been named the most successful historical meme, beating figures from past and present to be placed top of a database listing the significant figures through time.