What religious background was Sorley MacLean brought up in?
Catholic
Baptist
Presbyterian
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Sorley MacLean was raised in a Presbyterian household, and this had a profound impact on his poetry. He was deeply influenced by the Calvinist belief in predestination, which held that God had already decided who would be saved and who would be damned. This belief led MacLean to a sense of fatalism and despair, which is evident in many of his poems.
Sorley MacLean: A Celtic Wordsmith's Legacy
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