This could be the author putting this language in the mouth of fools but then later, Satan, who appears to be the character of the highest integrity, tops them all, and the play descends into all the stereotypes of nihilistic atheism, one doesn't know what to make of it. The defense attorney is an attractive young woman who happens to be an agnostic the judge and the prosecutor spend much of their time in misogynistic commentary (not just flirtation this moves to the level of outright misogyny). Set up as a trial in Purgatory to try to get Judas out of hell, the author manages to wield with some skill the chief arguments of the educated atheist, while making his judge and counselor for the prosecution quite unlikeable the prosecutor is a fool who spends his time sucking up.
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