Was Shakespeare an Atheist?
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Description: We will never know. You can find hints that he may have been, or at least that he wasn't totally fond of religion and its orthodox practitioners, from his plays.
Robert Ingersoll thought so. In a popular lecture, the nineteenth-century freethinker extolled a great infidel, "the sublimest man of the human race," who deemed all religions "simple phases of human thought, or the lack of thought." In 1783, Joseph Ritson had broached a similar view. In Remarks on the Last Edition of Shakespeare, Ritson said the poet was unshackled by "the reigning superstitions of the time, addicted to no system of bigotry [whether] Popish or Protestant, Paganism or Christianity." More recently, Walter Kaufmann descried a self-sufficient Nietzschean
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