Tolerance, Elton John Style!

On Sunday, November 12, Sir Elton told interviewer Jake Shears (a performer with the group “Scissor Sisters”) that he wants to see an organized effort to suppress institutionalized faith. “From my point of view I would ban religion completely,” the superstar declared, “even though there are some wonderful things about it…. But the reality is that organized religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate.”
-Michael Medved

So, Elton, let's take away religion completely. Will atheism be altogether more compassionate and tolerant then naught? Look at the great atheistic regimes (Soviet Union, China, Cuba, etc.) and see how well a religious-less society frees people from a fate of being a "hateful lemming." Face it, atheism is just as dogmatic and institutionalized as "religion." There are fundamental and unquestioned doctrines used by the demagogues: equality, tolerance, a twisted notion of freedom, along with a zealous irreligious evangelism manifested in bodies like the ACLU. Frankly, without religion and the inherited systems of our forebears, we don't even know what wrong and right actually is.