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\u00a0 Christopher Hitchens famously and repeatedly claimed that \u201creligion poisons everything.\u201d \u00a0 His claim was and is false beyond any reasonable dispute. \u00a0 Here, for example, is one of the stained glass windows from the magnificent\u00a0Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Chartres in France (the Basilique Cath\u00e9drale Notre-Dame de Chartres). \u00a0 Religion didn\u2019t poison this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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