Elton John Banning Religion

Elton John is quote on Newsmax:

"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred toward gay people," John said in the Observer newspaper's Music Monthly Magazine. "Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays."

"But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion," he said. "From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."

So according to Elton John, organized religion is hateful. Just the simple statement that God defines reality and how His creatures are to live and behave is hateful and should be banned.

Now with that kind of rhetoric, is Elton John just some morally neutral creature able to sit in judgment on all religion? On what basis does he say it should be banned? Simply because it is his perspective, should those of us who believe Christ has organized and is builiding a church be banned? If each perspective becomes the point from which judgements should be made, how will his position resist someone of the Islamic persuasion in an Islamic country?

Sir, I think you are wrong for hating Gay people.

That is fine. Now die!

Can't we talk about it?

You may talk all you want. Now die!

But we are people, don't you respect humanity.

Yes, now die!

Please sir, your religious talk is causing others to be hateful.

I see your point. Now die!

It does not matter what Elton John believes anecdotally about people he knows who love their religion. For love is simply defined from his perspective. How does he know if it is true love if the Creator's definition of love is surpressed. We know that the Creator has told us specifically that men hate the truth and surpress it in Romans chapter 1. Isn't this the very truth Elton John denies?

Christianity is not calling men to die, but to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. Homosexuality is not some unpardonable sin. All sin leads to death. It is sin that must be dealt with in the Person of Christ. Only He can take it away. Only He can give Life.

Perhaps he has forgotten what atheism and supposed non-religion has brought to our world the last century. Stalin ring a bell anyone? He may continue to attack Christianity, for surely that is the big target here in the U.S.. Yet it is the very religion that has given him freedom from Islamic Law. Be careful what you wish for Mr. John. According to Romans 1, you seem to be getting it.