“Religion Poisons Everything!” (15)

The Sermon on the Mount, judging from the Hitchens principle that “religion poisons everything,” might have been a halfway memorable speech if it weren’t for all the religious stuff crammed into it:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5-7&version=KJV

The 1939 Church of the Beatitudes, sitting above the Sea of Galilee in Israel, was commissioned for an order of Franciscan nuns by the late Italian leader Benito Mussolini in order to commemorate the Sermon on the Mount, and was designed by the Italian architect Antonio Barluzzi.

Mussolini.

Mr. Beatitudes himself.

Now there was a man, an atheist and a spellbinding orator, who could have done justice to a sermon on a mount!

Some parts of the present text are, nonetheless, pretty eloquent as they stand.