Nov 13, 2006 • 1 min read

Elton John suggests banning religion

In an Observer Music Monthly interview with Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears, Elton John suggested all organised religion should be banned, calling it intolerant towards gay people.

Hmmm, this might be a bit ambitious, but Elton John has suggested that all organised religion should be banned. He reached that conclusion in an interview with Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears in the Observer Music Monthly, explaining that religion had a habit of turning people into "hateful lemmings".

The comments followed a more specific discussion of the intolerance of many religions to homosexuality. John: "There are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion. But I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."

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