“Religion poisons everything” (4)

Those who’re interested in evaluating the claim advanced by the late Christopher Hitchens that “religion poisons everything” might want to take a look, if they haven’t already, at the remarkable 2006 film Amazing Grace:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454776/

It will offer them an occasion to consider how his Christianity poisoned William Wilberforce and how religion poisoned the British parliamentary fight over ending Britain’s involvement in the slave trade.