Atheists & Agnostics

He wrote poems to them.

"James nevertheless cultivated a close friendship with the married 37-year-old Esme Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox, to who he also dedicated a poem. What was more likely a crush for the then 14-year-old James than a friendship is the first indication of the Scottish king’s latent homosexuality which Protestant nobles disdained given James's enjoyment of demonstrating public displays of affection with the earl."

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-life-of-king-james-i-and-vi-the-wisest-fool-in-christendom

But all the innocent women he murdered, and caused to be murdered, burned at the steak or hanged for being witches put a pall on his 25 year reign. He died of dysentery at the age of 58.


"‘The North Berwick Witch Trials’ saw James taking it upon himself to appear in person to interrogate a group of people accused of witchcraft. James played the role of prosecuting barrister, interviewing women such as Agnes Sampson, a ‘healer’ known as the ‘Wise Wife of Keith’ which kicked off a witch craze of prosecutions between 1590 – 1662. It is estimated that about 1500 people were executed in Scotland under charges of witchcraft, most of whom were women who had become victims of gossip and hearsay."

He then went on to write books about witchcraft spreading this mass delusion throughout the empire; causing even more innocent people to die.