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[deleted213967]

The last movie biography didn't mention it (wrong target audience I guess), but did you know that at the end of his life, Oscar became a Catholic, confessed, received last rights and is now (most likely) a saint in heaven?

Yes, yes, so did Darwin, according to The Legend.

"Cramming for the finals", they call it.

We certainly know that he acted upon his homosexual impulses, which would likely not make him a very Catholic saint candidate...

...although I agree with you that his wit was an order of magnitude more miraculous than the embarrassingly mundane feats the RCC upgraded as "miracles" for the score of saints it manufactured under the regime of JP2.

 

[Calboner]

The last movie biography didn't mention it (wrong target audience I guess), but did you know that at the end of his life, Oscar became a Catholic, confessed, received last rights and is now (most likely) a saint in heaven?

Ah, another posthumous forced conversion.

Actually, though, this is not pure fiction, as the tale about Darwin to which Domisoldo alludes is. It is a fact that a Catholic priest did administer the last rites (not "last rights," but "rite" as in "ritual") to Oscar Wilde. What is not known or knowable is whether Wilde consented to receive them. Here is the account of the matter from Richard Ellmann's biography (Oscar Wilde (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), p. 584, bold type added):

The sight of Wilde's pathetic state now decided Ross [Robert Ross, a Catholic friend of Wilde]. As he later told Max Meyerfield, when Wilde was unconscious he made up his mind to get him a priest so there could be formal obsequies and a ceremonious burial. Otherwise the body might be taken to the morgue and an autopsy performed. He rushed to the Passionist Fathers and brought back Father Cuthbert Dunne. Ross asked Wilde if he wished to see Dunne, and Wilde, unable to speak, held up his hand. Dunne asked him if he wished to be received and he once more held up his hand. On this sign Dunne gave him conditional baptism, and absolved and anointed him. 'He was never able to speak and we do not know whether he was altogether conscious,' said Ross.
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So what we have is the testimony of a Catholic friend who wanted Wilde to be received into the church before he should die, according to which Wilde raised his hand in response to questions. Even on the assumption that Ross's account of events is perfectly truthful, there is no way to know whether the gesture meant "Yes, please" or "Fuck, no!"

 

[D_Harry_Crax]

This guy's huge cock is pointing toward the Gideon Bible in the motel room, but he's not paying attention to it otherwise.

 

[Uncutsouthernboy]

Try the "Unvarnished New Testament" It is a translation by an acclaimed translator of ancient Greek who has never read the Bible. He translated it as any other ancient writing with all its mistakes in grammar and without any preconcieved religious notions. The ancient Greek words are translated as they were meant to be understood at the time of their writing.

 

[Uncutsouthernboy]

The translator of The Unvarnished New Testament is Andy Gaus. I kinda misspoke when I said that he had not read the Bible before. I don't know if he had or not. I got that confused with a different book about the Bible. Sorry.

 

[SouthernSpunk]

This guy's huge cock is pointing toward the Gideon Bible in the motel room, but he's not paying attention to it otherwise.

No doubt he's pointing to the verse in Ezekiel 23:20 (New International Version):

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.