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Originally Posted by issybird
And yet, wasn't Wilde a deathbed convert? Perhaps it was a Pascalian covering of his ass, but it also attests to a continuing fascination and struggle with the issues of religion and belief on his part.
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While I'm generally skeptical of stories of deathbed conversions in general, that one appears to have been genuine. Not only was he baptized into the Catholic faith, but he appears to have received Extreme Unction as well. How much of his conversion was genuine and how much was for motives other than those of genuine religious conviction are matters of which only he knew the truth, but it appears true that he died a convert.