The Lies Will Make Your Head Spin...

I find the statement in the 'Truth Will Set You Free' review that Shakespeare's possible Catholicism is yet MORE proof that Shakespeare didn't write the plays to be another sad example of the endless cycle conspiracy-mongers tread in debating their beliefs--answer an objection, and they immediately launch forth another shoddy argument that supposedly demonstrates how you've proven their point. It's a style that avoids dealing with evidence, always handy when you don't actually have any, and attempts to overwhelm good sense with eloquence and innuendo.

To the point--if Shakespeare being a Catholic is "proof" that he couldn't have written his plays, as they espouse non-Catholic beliefs, (a statement that handily ignores the fact that Catholic sympathies was part of the bandied about "evidence" that Da Vere wrote the plays when the claim was first made) then we now also know that Samuel Clemens (who incidently believed that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays) was not in point of fact "Mark Twain" since his writings are hardly what would be expected from a white man from Missouri to have written or believed. Hopefully, this makes apparent the completely worthless nature of that argument.