Ernest hemingway biography religion in school

Ernest Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. He committed suicide in Sun Valley, Idaho with a shotgun in 1961.

Hemingway's upbringing was in a strict Congregationalist home[1] where he and his family regularly attended the First Congregationalist Church.[2]

Later in life, Hemingway converted to Catholicism for the sake of his second wife, Pauline.[3]

However, it is likely that this was purely pomp and circumstance and Hemingway was never religious.

One Hemingway biographer, Paul Johnson, wrote:

[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.[4]

Though Hemingway never came out and expressed his personal religious views, the previous quote is supported by a line in perhaps his most famous book, A Moveable Feast, where H