Death to Extremists

It was the Fall of 1980 when I saw this slogan graffiti'd on a walkway at Humboldt State University where I was a new freshman. Being truly on my own for the first time, and finally exposed to some new thought, I laughed pretty hard at the irony.
Sadly, there are so many people today lost in the rhetoric of Secular Progressivism (thanks to DMarie for the heads up on this new label), that they can't see how irrational some of their ideas are.
Elton John recently came up with a winner recently when he was quoted "I would ban religion completely...Religion has always tried to turn hatred toward gay people. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it is not really compassionate."(story here)
Yes, Sir Elton, let's ban religion for not being more tolerant.
I'd really like to know what religion turned Sir Elton the John into a 'hateful lemming' when he told photographers at the Cannes Film Festival back in May "You should all be shot."
Damn all you hateful people!