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Old 08-15-2016, 02:30 PM   #68
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague View Post
Once asked about his last words in the context of a deathbed conversion, he said:

It makes no sense to me to attribute some sort of elevated stock or special meaning to a person's last words. As a person lays dying they're by definition barely a functional human being anymore.
Thats an unfair use of that quote.

In context, he was talking about renouncing his atheism and succumbing to Pascal's wager.

Using that quote to nullify anything said when near-death is misguided.
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