She was a Christian. Charles Darwin threw Christianity in the garbage.
As disbelief later gradually crept over Darwin, he could "hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine."
Emma Darwin
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Darwin in 1840
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| Born |
Emma Wedgwood
2 May 1808
Maer, Staffordshire, England
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| Died | 2 October 1896 (aged 88)
Bromley, Kent, England
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| Spouse(s) |
Charles Darwin
(m. 1839; his death 1882) |
| Children | 10 |
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