Why Shakespeare proves Christianity is true

The incarnate Word, he was born of the virgin queen Elizabeth, he was a born king but not of this world—he wrote “my library was dukedom enough” and “I have taken all knowledge for my province.” He prosecuted the rebellious Essex, who tried to take the throne. He invented the first binary code in his teens. He wasn’t an astronomer, but the whole idea of publicly-funded research, permanent, state-funded scientific research, that was all him. He also gave us the word “archetype,” or at least he was the first person to use it in English (per the OED), in The Advancement of Learning (1605). How remarkable, then, that his biography should conform to the hero archetype as described by Lord Raglan? How did Raglan overlook this—or did he overlook it? I don’t know, but it is remarkable, you have to admit, I can’t believe nobody has written about this.

And of course, pork is forbidden in Judaism and Islam. So the way I saw it, that’s how God could resolve the monotheism question, we could slip some bacon in the communion wafers. Maimonides, the authoritative Jewish philosopher, admired Aristotle and tried to reconcile the Torah with him, but Bacon overthrew Aristotle with the Novum Organum, and called him “that worst of sophists.” And the correspondence of the Mayflower Compact, two revolutions in the same year, 400 years (one full Gregorian calendar) before covid. If you choose to overlook that, you are missing a big part of how we got here.