LISP slower than JAVA?

SBCL, the fastest LISP, is slower than Java.

Why do people say Java is bad because it's slow, but say LISP is the best programming language ever?

I don't get it.

Functional code is intuitively more inclined to optimisation than braindead "do this then this then this, oh and anything you do might have side effects" imperative code. The opposite is only true since more effort has been put into imperative language compilers because they are more popular because imperative programming it is easier to grasp for most (i.e. simple-minded) people than functional programming. The Von Neumann model of computing should never have survived past assembly language, or at most up to the point where they managed to bootstrap C successfully.