Sir Elton: Ban organised religion

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Sir Elton John accuses religion of turning "hatred towards gay people" and says he favours a complete ban.

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[John Charmley]

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Sir Elton John accuses religion of turning "hatred towards gay people" and says he favours a complete ban.

This news item is from the BBC UK News service.

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What an odd way of tackling intolerance, but, alas, not untypical. It is only a misplaced sense of tolerance that stops me thinking that a ban on 'Sir Elton' might be in order.

Fortunately for him, he is wrong about Christians, and they will respons with a shrug, assuming they know who he is; Muslims might take a different view.

INXC

John

[Herman Blaydoe]

Means nothing to me, I don't belong to any ORGANIZED religion...

I'm Orthodox!

[Andrew]

He's at his best when he's not expressing his own ideas... he's a wonderful pop artist (who doesn't write any of his own lyrics, thankfully), but these kind of comments are quite weak.

[Kris]

Sir Elton John accuses religion of turning "hatred towards gay people" and says he favours a complete ban.


I think one of the most effective ways of making religious people hate you is to propose a "complete ban" on the thing that means more to them than anything else, and which defines their very being.

[Andreas Moran]

Perhaps Elton John should return his knighthood to the religious leader who gave it to him.

[John Charmley]

Perhaps Elton John should return his knighthood to the religious leader who gave it to him.

Dear Andreas,
What a good idea; he might also put brain into gear before opening mouth!

There are many aspects of 'modern' sexual practices which the Church does not condone, most of them are actually heterosexual; what next, Sir Mick Jagger opining that Christianity should be banned because it incites hatred of adultery? Pork butchers having a go at Judaism and Islam because of what it does to their business?

One of the many downsides of the sectarian mentality (and secularism is as sectarian as any other belief system can be) is that it fails to see the bigger picture. The Church directs its strictures at very many aspects of the way we in the west conduct our lives, it calls us to repentance and renewal in Christ. The Church preaches hatred of no one; God is love. It is the sin that the Church hates, because that disfigures us and prevents us being in God's image.

Perhaps, for Sir Elton, 'sorry' really is the hardest word.


In Christ,

John

[Elena]

It is so sad that Sir Elton seems to see the teachings of Christ and organised religion as two different things. It is foolish of him to call for a ban on all organised religion - how on earth in a liberal society could such a thing happen - but how incredibly sad that he could feel this way about Christianity.