November 13, 2006
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(Ventura, CA) – “Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like the United States.” Those words were not spoken by Osama bin Laden but by comedienne turned talk-show hostess Rosie O’Donnell on a nationally broadcast program in October. And now …. Elton John came out and said “I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. “I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn’t seem to work. “It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate.” Strong words … Should they have the right to speak these words?
Comments (4)
That is so wrong of him to compare us to rodents!! It also show what type of person Elton is by making that statement. He has hatred toward community too. IF he is better then those type of group why did he stoop low to their level and make that type of statement.? ALL religion is beautiful it just those individual or group twist into chaos.
hope your days goes well.
Rosie being American and all has her constitutional right and freedom to say it. It also goes to show the lack of tolerance people on that side of the aidle have towards Christians, even though they preach tolerance as if it were some sort of gospel.
Stuff like this also points out the importance of our actions in the public eye. Those outspoken who proclaim to be Christians but speak with such outspoken hatred towards people they should be loving has severly damaged the image Christ wanted us to present to the world. It is sad that all Christians are generally lumped together under the same label as these people.
Perhaps it is time that those who live the gospel as Christ would have us live it need to become more outspoken. Introverts or extroverts, and myself included.
“Should they have the right to speak these words? “
A loud resounding YES. Not because I agree with them, but because it’s wrong to go around silencing people you don’t agree with. They only have to be stopped once they act on such things or inspire acts in others, such as violence against Chrstians and the like.
if you notice everyone in every religion ll over the wrold gets persecution. i get persecuted for being hindu here because im directly in the middle of a bunch of chrsitains its crazy!