does Sherlock Holmes believe in a higher power?

[Mr.e]

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i have a question.

does Sherlock Holmes believe in higher power?

at the end of "His Last Bow" Sherlock Holmes says
"there is a storm coming, but its God's wind non the less"
and at the end of "the Bascombe valley mystery" he says
"God help us" "Why does fate play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes."
also at the illustrious client he said
"The wages of sin, Watson - the wages of sin" "Sooner or later it will always come. God knows, there was sin enough"

and in "The Naval Treaty" he says:

"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
does that mean that Sherlock Holmes believed in a higher power ?

[PeterL]

I believe that the last quotation says it. Holmes believed in a God that is distant from humns and takes no active part in human affairs.

[cacian]

I believe that the last quotation says it. Holmes believed in a God that is distnt from humns and takes no active part in human affairs.

Which is I think the right way forward but yes it is evident in those words that Sherlock was a god lover.

[PeterL]

Which is I think the right way forward but yes it is evident in those words that Sherlock was a god lover.

I would say that he was more of a Goddess lover, because his primary deity was Athena.

[cacian]

I would say that he was more of a Goddess lover, because his primary deity was Athena.

Ah. Well god goddess aren't they close?

[PeterL]

Ah. Well god goddess aren't they close?

Yes. they are close, but you don't call women men, do you?

[cacian]

Yes. they are close, but you don't call women men, do you?

Hmmm depends. You could do if you wanted to. I believe we are all half and half.

[PeterL]

Hmmm depends. You could do if you wanted too. I believe we are all half and half.

If you can't tell the difference, that is you problem.