The Religion and Political Views of Edgar Allan Poe [View all]

[cbayer]

This site is really fun to look around. Might be fun to pick individuals to highlight. I've spent some time on it and I can't find a political agenda, but would love to know if anyone else sees one. We are pattern recognition beings, but I'm having trouble seeing a pattern.

http://hollowverse.com/edgar-allan-poe/

Religion
Poe was Christian, but sometimes sounded like a deist or a pantheist.

Political Views
He was a non-political antebellum Southerner.



Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and London, England. He died at the age of 40 of unknown causes after being discovered delirious on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland.

First of all, if you heard Poe was an atheist, you heard wrong. Maybe you saw this quote on a meme:

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.1

I hate to break it to you atheist Poe fans but, according to scholars, he didn’t say it.2 It turns out religion was a big part of Poe’s life and philosophy.

Poe’s foster mother–his father disappeared and his mother died when he was very young–had him baptized when he was nearly three-years-old by the Episcopal church, and he continued to go to church throughout his youth. It also appears that he went at least occasionally in adulthood.3 This religious background is revealed in his poems and short stories, which often allude to and quote the bible.4

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