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It goes both ways. On the one hand the religious want to claim eveyone as one of their own, especially in death-bed conversions. On the other hand, there are th
by Veen 5y ago
It goes both ways. On the one hand the religious want to claim eveyone as one of their own, especially in death-bed conversions. On the other hand, there are the rabidly anti-Catholic types who make up lies about people having been abused without evidence, as we see in this thread. Or the atheists who conveniently forget that quite a lot of "free thinkers" were religious.
Wittgenstein was not a Catholic because he had no faith, but he was respecful of Catholicism, had many Catholic friends, and asked for a priest to be present as he died. There's no evidence he formally converted.
- gverrilla 5y agohttps://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c9z6w6n469et/catholic-church-sexual-abuse-cases https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c9z6w6n469et/catholic-church...
- Veen 5y agoWhat of it? What would Wittgenstein say to the syllogism, 'Some Catholic priests are child abusers, Wittgenstein was a Catholic in childhood, therefore Wittgenstein was abused by a priest'?
- goto11 5y agoThe comment about abuse is obviously a tongue-in-cheek retort to the claims he converted on his deathbed.