First of all, John didn't say that the Beatles were "bigger" than Jesus, he said that the Beatles were more "popular", just as a fact as he could have said "television is more popular than Jesus" (this is from his own words). He didn't even mean that it was something good, he was just saying that most of people in the world don't follow Jesus, and that's true, that's why the world is going so bad. So that poll only confirms that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, but never bigger. After all, we live in the year 2011 after Jesus Christ and not in 48 after the Beatles or 71 after John Lennon.