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--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Deathbed conversion of Gramsci
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 8:49 PM
> Or one last chance for the good clergy to feel like they
> might do the
> patient some good.
>
> Might be an interesting exercise in intellectual history to
> look at any
> common threads of Gramsci and liberation theology and see
> if there are any
> common roots. Not really something I am equipped to do and
> probably not
> something anyone on this list is going to jump on but still
> hypothetically
> interesting.
>
> As for G getting buried in the Protestant cemetary I am
> always amused by the
> bizarre theological motivations behind the hot issue of who
> gets which
> cemetary real estate.
>
> DC
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Jim Farmelant
> <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:33:45 -0500 Doug Henwood
> <dhenwood at panix.com>
> > writes:
> > > God, I hope this doesn't happen to me....
> > > ___________________________________
> >
> > The atheist philosopher George Santayana spent his
> > last years, living at the Convent of the Blue Nuns of
> the Little
> > Company of Mary on the Celian Hill in Rome,
> > where he was cared for by the sisters there. It is
> > said that when he was dying, he informed his friends
> > that there might be reports following his death that
> > he had undergone a deathbed conversion, but
> > that any such reports shouldn't be taken
> > very seriously.
> >
> > In the case of Gramsci, I think it is quite
> > possible that he had taken final sacraments and
> > all that jazz that Catholics are supposed to
> > do whey are about to kick off this mortal
> > coil. But I suspect that by then, he was,
> > if conscious at all, just barely so, and
> > probably not at all cognizant of what
> > was going on at that point. The
> > Catholic Church, especially in those
> > days was not shy about pushing such
> > things to people on their deathbeds,
> > on the supposition that no matter how
> > far gone they might appear to be, they
> > might still be sufficiently aware to make
> > a last moment conversion.
> >
> > Jim F.
> >
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