David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

From the point of view of an English Protestant of the next generation after Shakespeare, it would be hard to imagine an idea more "harmful" than Purgatory - or that last rites by a priest might somehow mitigate God's judgment. There could be no worse error for human fate! — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 18, 2023

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Hamlet is written by a man (and for an audience) who still took seriously older Catholic ideas. The murder of Hamlet's father is so "horrible," because he was killed "unhousel'd," ie without a final Eucharist. He faced the fires of Purgatory "all my imperfections upon my head." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 18, 2023

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Suppose somebody in the 1640s had taken it upon himself to rewrite Hamlet to eliminate these false ideas - maybe by cutting the Ghost altogether and all his suspiciously Papist speeches? What would we think of that now? Not too highly, I imagine. And yet ... — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 18, 2023