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== Religious views ==

== Religious views ==

Although ostensibly a convert to [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]], Hemingway was never public about his real religious beliefs.  "All thinking men are [[atheist]]s," Hemingway asserted in his posthumously published memoirs, ''A Moveable Feast'' (1964).<ref name="Ernest">https://hollowverse.com/ernest-hemingway/</ref>  Biographer Paul Johnson wrote that "[Hemingway] did not only not believe in God but regarded organized religion as a menace to human happiness ... [he] seems to have been devoid of the religious spirit… [and] ceased to practice religion at the earliest possible moment."<ref name="Ernest"/>

Although ostensibly a convert to [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]], Hemingway was never public about his real religious beliefs. 

 

The lack of humor in his writings suggests that he may have been an [[atheist]], though not a militant one.  "All thinking men are [[atheist]]s," Hemingway asserted in his posthumously published memoirs, ''A Moveable Feast'' (1964).<ref name="Ernest">https://hollowverse.com/ernest-hemingway/</ref> But it is a bit unfair to rely on a posthumous publication as a testament of one's beliefs. Biographer Paul Johnson wrote that "[Hemingway] did not only not believe in God but regarded organized religion as a menace to human happiness ... [he] seems to have been devoid of the religious spirit… [and] ceased to practice religion at the earliest possible moment."<ref name="Ernest"/> Still, that observation is not conclusive about what Hemingway believed at the end of his life, when he committed suicide.

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