The second major point is found in chapter 4, “A Note on Health, to Which Religion Can be Hazardous,” he crucifies the major world religions for the harm they have done to humanity. Which mentions Muslims’ opposition to polio vaccines, the Vatican’s opposition to the distribution of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS, Jehovah’s Witnesses’ refusal to give their children life-saving blood transfusions, the Roman Catholic Church’s protection of abusive priests, and religious oppression of women and homosexuals. Christopher Hitchens says, “The attitude of religion to medicine, like the attitude of religion to science, is always necessarily problematic and very often necessarily hostile. A modern believer can say and even believe that his faith
