Sentences with phrase «deathbed conversion»

I don't like the saving ones soul by deluding anyone with deathbed conversions.

Comparing an attempted deathbed conversion with a doctor telling a patient he / she has cancer is an idiotic analogy.

Christians have been telling lies about deathbed conversions long since you started to tell lies about it.

I wouldn't put ANY stock in anyone deathbed conversion to religion, and it would be pretty silly to think that after a lifetime of being an atheist, that someone would be suddenly «converted» at death.

I don't know what sort of praiseworthy items God will find in deathbed conversions, but maybe He will praise things they did before they were believers?

There are few deathbed conversions.

The only deathbed conversion attempts I have seen were Christians.

If a man has lived a life of cruelty and then has a change of heart, is truly sorry for his sins and then dies (the proverbial «deathbed conversion») he can «be saved» without having done a good work in his life.

Fact - checking site Snopes was quick to point out that this is yet another phony story about the deathbed conversion of an unbeliever.

No deathbed conversion for me.

That is why the concluding episode, the deathbed conversion of Lord Marchmain, is the denouement pointed to by the perceptive Cordelia.

The subject of deathbed conversions was hotly debated in 17th century England.

Some of Waugh's readers did not share his enthusiasm for deathbed conversions.

This is a deathbed conversion that's got no credibility at all.»

The Liberal Democrats have also questioned this «deathbed conversion».

The Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne, described the measure as «a deathbed conversion and a baby step towards proportional voting», but said his party would vote for it.

Though Labour has enjoyed a deathbed conversion to aspects of the cause of reform, it is the Liberal Democrats who have most consistently argued that cause in the round and who, after the exhaustion of the old politics, reflect and lead an overwhelming national mood for real change.

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg - whose party has long argued for electoral reform - welcomed Mr Brown's «deathbed conversion» to the cause «from the man who has blocked change at every opportunity for the last 12 years».

The great Labour tribalist was making a deathbed conversion to the benefits of co-operation with another party.

I know they had a deathbed conversion to the 50p, but now they pretend that they were believers all along.

I welcome this deathbed conversion to political reform from the man who has blocked change at almost every opportunity for the last twelve years.

For the Lib Dems, David Howarth said the government's «deathbed conversion» to electoral reform did «look like a manoeuvre».

Despite Gordon Brown's deathbed conversion to AV prompting a manifesto promise to hold a referendum on the issue, the party's campaign co-ordinator Andy Burnham said earlier in the month that the party would not formally campaign in favour of Alternative Vote.

Deathbed conversions are always suspect.