“Religion poisons everything” (2)

It’s difficult to imagine John Milton’s Paradise Lost (or his Paradise Regained) without religion.

Perhaps, some atheist apologist might respond, Milton might have created a great secular poem, instead.  But a secular Paradise Lost is also quite difficult to imagine.

And, pray tell, how exactly did religion poison the Paradise Lost that we do have?

Yet, if Christopher Hitchens had been right that religion poisons everything, it must, logically, have poisoned Paradise Lost — which is generally regarded as one of the great works of literature in the English language.