\u201cThe Creation of Adam\u201d
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Cappella Sistina, Stato della Citt\u00e0 del Vaticano
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It\u2019s somewhat difficult for me to see how religion poisoned Michelangelo\u2019s frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.<\/p>\n
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Surely Christopher Hitchens must have overlooked the scene shown above, for example. \u00a0Would we really be better off, would Western civilization be richer and somehow healthier, if it didn\u2019t exist?<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 It\u2019s somewhat difficult for me to see how religion poisoned Michelangelo\u2019s frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. \u00a0 Surely Christopher Hitchens must have overlooked the scene shown above, for example. \u00a0Would we really be better off, would Western civilization be richer and somehow healthier, if it didn\u2019t exist? \u00a0 \u00a0<\/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-19787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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