You know, I'd like to amend my last post...without craftily editing it in Blogger so it looks as though I had this idea all along.
The theological issue in Richard II is about politics. For me, sure, I still feel the atheistic implications sprout up, but an Elizabethan audience would have felt no such thing. In relation to god, it's about whether it is god's will for one man to wield ultimate political power at the expense of the people he rules or if it is god's will for him to be just and good to the people he rules. Since Richard doesn't have the best interests of the people in mind, it's fine and dandy that his crown is usurped. (Though, again, he probably would have gotten away with it if he hadn't robbed Bolingbroke blind.)
But if Richard had stuck to his guns on the battlements, the play might not have ended the way it did. (Okay, it would have because it's a history...) Richard just talks himself out of the throne and Bolingbroke is all too happy to let him.
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*With apologies to Harris K. Telemacher.