I agree tbqh

im not a fan of religion, but you cant ban it. You can't ban someones beliefs. Everyone has a right to believe what they want, and everyone's beliefs need to be tolerated, if not respected.

^ True. There's nothing wrong with religion as long as you can be open minded about it. Its the conservative bigots who give religion a bad name.

Well I believe religion should be banned so I guess you have to tolerate and/or respect that

Right on, Elton

haha ban religion?? I'm sure that will solve a bunch of the world's problems. It's brilliant! Man I've always hated having the right to worship, it sucks!

Theoretically it makes sense because of all the holy wars, but its not possible and people should have right to worship.

Religion is the source of all evil, but banning it would be taking things a little too far.

It's not religion that's evil, it's the extremist of each nature. Just like in politics.This Message Edited On 11.14.06

Hey Elton John, watch the newest episode of South Park and then make your mind up again please. YOU WILL BE HORRIFIED.

Thank you.

although i agree with elton, and loathe organised religion with a passion, its true that it would be just as bad to try and "ban" it.

however, having said that, the act of using religion as a means to justify something legally or politically should be banned.

BAN IT!! religion causes evilness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Humanity is too pathetically weak minded to live without some form of religion/belief system, be it Christianity or Capitalism. Also, gays get picked on because most people have to find some kind of scapegoat to attack as they cant accept their own faults.

personal religion is acceptable but i dont agree with it as an institution

LOL. Lets ban racism, because that will work :rolleyes: . The key to making religion more tolerant is to water it down gradually and to change people's minds through their own will, which takes time. Elton John is an idiot. (I am agnostic BTW).

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/me supports

Religion sucks and only raises hatred IMO

if anyone believes banning religion would solve any problems in the world, they are either deluded or an idiot, people will always find someway to justify slaughtering one another

Let God do the judging, yo. This isn't for me to discuss.

The vast majority of religious people are innocent, peaceful people. A lot of terrorists just use religion to 'justify' their attacks which is a load of bullshit. I'm a christian and I have friends from all religions and we respect each others views and this is the same for most of the world. None of the major religions dictate violence, people just use it as an ecxuse for violence.

That's not true. There are several places in the Koran where Allah orders the killing of infidels. There are examples of violence in the bible too of course.

Still, saying "Religion sucks" is just stupid and intolerant.

AMEN emphasis on the AMEN to SoP's post.

There are plenty of religions, even organized, that promote peace over all else. They just seem to be overshadowed by more corrupt versions of the same premise... so the statement seems slightly ignorant, even though it was probably generalized for public consumption.

Kind of like most of the big religions.

Cmon guys, I know this is a place for some debate, but let's not get out of hand. I've had to delete several ignorant and useless comments, so don't be one of those people.

I'm not entirely sure about this... but Elton has never steered me wrong before.

**** you elton intolerant *******

poor, poor elton

I don't think that any ideology should ever be banned in a free nation. However, I agree with most of what he said.

Been reading a book called Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer.

Not too exciting, but offers some good reasons for the existence of religion.

That's not to say he thinks it should exist, but why it was inevitable that it should come into existence.

To me, I can see some good points and bad points about religion.

But my main thought on it is, "why bother?"

religion has never had anything good come of it.

much like governments, and nations. Governments are useless. I mean, really, what major war hasn't been between two different governments? ANARCHY 4 LYFE1!!1/!/1!