According to this report on the BBC website, Sir Elton John has called for a ban on organised religion. I quote
Sir Elton John has said he would like to see all organised religion banned and accused it of trying to "turn hatred towards gay people".
Organised religion lacked compassion and turned people into "hateful lemmings", he told the Observer.
But the musician said he loved the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it which he had learned at Sunday school.
And he said there were many gays he knew who loved their religion.
According to the singer-songwriter, 59, his solution would be to "ban religion completely, even though there are some wonderful things about it".
Now hopefully it is still alright for us to strongly disagree with an idea without this being perceived as a hateful attack by a "lemming". The kind of "love" that calls its opponents "lemmings" itself looks a bit unfriendly to me, but we won't go into that.
The idea being proposed is NOT that homosexuals not be allowed to organise their efforts, for this they will certainly continue to do - but that Christians, Hindus, Jews and muslims - or any other religious group - be forbidden to organise their efforts, to work together according to their beliefs. In other words, no one should be free to practice their religion if it has an element of community. Presumably then, even "gays who love their religion" should be banned from practicing it.
The communists tried a similar idea and in some places they still do. To enforce this ban, communists threw people into jail, sent them to re-education camps and the like. How would Sir Elton propose that the authorities punish those who persist in religious activities despite the proposed ban on organised religion? How can all these religious people be forced to stop? Confiscate all their property? And then? Throw them in prison? In solitary confinement? I don't know. How do you force people to stop doing something they really like doing together? If consenting Christians want to worship Christ together in the privacy of their own homes or even in public places for that matter, and they are doing it with some sort of organisation or purpose, what is wrong with that? Is it appropriate for an enlightened society to impose punishment on such a thing?
All communities require organisation to function. Sir Elton is apparently calling in this article for the leaders of religions to get together and work things out for world peace, but it would
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About Sir Elton John.....
cleanasfire loves you in Jesus' name. Elton has made many broad sweeping ego driven statements of late, Banning the internet was one of them, as well as this one. I have always enjoyed a lot of his songs in my younger carnal days. His melodies were a powerful influence and changed the way I wrote music for a time. However when I was but a small lad in Pennsylvania, I remember finding out he was a gay man and I burned his records In Langhorne Pa. I lived in many homosexual strongholds in my life and nowadays I feel sorry for those who follow that lifestyle of lust. Elton as a person is very emotionally up and down, he constantly tries to make what isn't naturally right in the Lords eyes to be ok with others. He thinks he has power and control over our world, obviously deceived as I was for many years. Jesus Christ is Lord...not Reginald Dwight. I pray for Gay people and do love them as a brother. I am in the entertainment business and there are many gay brothers and sisters in that arena.
elton john, the ACLU, and a
elton john, the ACLU, and a few other socialist hollywood types, are to me the most hateful ones.
I really enjoy E John's
I really enjoy E John's music, and, although I do not approve of the gay lifestyle, I appreciate his freedom to live it. Various clerics have had different interpretations of the Lord's opinion of homosexuality. It is not mine to judge. I am sorry that religions as a whole have offended him. As they say, sorry seems to be the hardest word. The man has been known to say things that he later takes back. I don't know if, after stewing with his statements for a few days, he still feels this way. I just pray that he, like all of us, can come to be more tolerant of others that are different from us. I respect the man for the causes that he has fought for, including AIDS research. I hope that, as he reads reactions to his words, he will come to embrace religion, not turn it away.
I pitty anyone that thinks
I pitty anyone that thinks in the way John E. does. Best we can do for him is pray and try to share the truth. I believe God loves John and carries Johns burdens as well as he does ours. My hope is that John whill one day wake up and have the blinders removed from him eyes. May God touch his heart and life. You can't ban and run from problems, you face them and ask for Gods wisdom and trust God to take care of it.
Sir Elton, needs Jesus. Only
Sir Elton, needs Jesus. Only Jesus can give lasting hapiness regardless of what you may be confronted with.
Kowing something from sunday school days is not good enough. You need to know Jesus more, at a personal level, at this time and age.
Sing for Jesus for a change and experience the Good this will do to you and for you. You need Jesus.
Sir Elton John sounds just a
Sir Elton John sounds just a bit like Madeline Murray O-Hair. Living here in the heart of Hollywood and having conversed quite a bit with his look-a-like, I have to say that poor Elton is just so darned unhappy and misguided that he doesn't make any sense...even to briefly chat with. He is not a happy homosexual as are most gays we see here in one of the several homosexual capitals of the world. The lack of proper male hormones does have something to do with it.
I didn't realize that Ellen Degeneres was raised in the heart of New Orleans, it's no excuse but homosexuality is all the Ellen knows, and again, SHE has a shortage of female hormones. Neither individual realizes that organized religion is not what they believe it is, they suffer from rebellion and ignorance amongst other issues....from where I stand.
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