More Sage Words from a Celebrity

I will admit, that I have heard a lot of advice from celebrities on weighty subjects over the years: from Britney Spears and the Dixie Chicks on the Iraq War to Madonna on international adoption and K.I.S.S. on the feasability of a two-state solution in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Now, Elton John ... excuse me, SIR Elton John ... has spoken out in order to set us straight (no pun intended). He states that organized religion needs to be abolished. While I do admit that organized religion has caused quite a great deal of unnecessary quarelling and conflict over the centuries, I'm not sure that it has exactly created a world of "hateful lemmings" (something of a bizarre metaphor). Nor do I quite understand how he makes the leap in attributing anti-gay sentiment in Latvia, Russia and Poland (until 1991 all officially atheist countries) to organized religion. Nor, quite frankly, do I really understand what organized religion has to do with anti-gay sentiment at all (you will find that different members of different religions take a wide variety of stances on the subject...and therefore Sir Elton is including in his condemnation such gay-friendly religions as Buddhism in Thailand).

Nor do I understand how he can combine this statement with other statements praising Jesus and Sunday school (the latter mostly for its stickers) and religious gays. Nor how he can call for a worldwide religious conclave (in my opinion the best idea from this muddled tirade, and reminiscent of something from Dune) by the religions he wants to ban.

Nor, to be honest, can I remember just why this man is famous in the first place. Something about singing...