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Originally Posted by kellychaos
I mean, what would he care? It's not as if he was a devout Catholic or anything. He received his baptism on his death bed for crying out loud.
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that was not necessarily politically motivated. Gibbons wrote that "the sacrament of baptism was supposed to contain a full and absolute expiation of sin; and the soul was instantly restored to its original purity, and entitled to the promise of external salvation. Among the proselytes of Christianity, there were many who judged it imprudent to precipitate a salutory rite, which could not be repeated; to throw away an inestimable privilege, which could never be recovered." this is the most likely explanation, at least.