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RECOMMENDED READINGS

God Seen Through the Eyes of the Gretest Minds Kindle Editions  Hard Cover Edition

What If God...?

The Dawkins Delusion?

There Is a God

Mere Christianity  C.S. Lewis

Darwin on Trial

The Edge of Evolution

Intelligent Design

The Fingerprint of God

The Creator and the Cosmos

Creation As Science

The Cell's Design

Understanding Intelligent Design

Icons of Evolution

The Language of God

What's So Great About Christianity

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  WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE: ATHEIST OR BELIEVER IN GOD?

     The American philosopher, George Santayana, concluded that Shakespeare was an atheist by simply analyzing Macbeth's statements in Act 5, Scene 5. According to Santayana, Macbeth's words were reflective of Shakespeare's hopelessness and lack of belief in God. Rather than wasting his time extracting non-existent meaning from a depressed, "fictional," evil character, Santayana could have uncovered Shakespeare's views on God by simply reading his Last Will and Testament.  


   "In the name of God, I William Shakespeare...God be praised, do make and ordain this, my last will and testament in manner and form following. That is to say, first I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing, through the merits of Jesus Christ, my saviour, to be made partaker of eternal life, and my body to the earth whereof it is made."

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Rowe, A. L., Shakespeares Self Portrait. University Press of America, 1985, 182.

 

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