Hell no, where on earth does this stuff come from. Hawking was an atheist to the end. He perhaps sees god as Einstein did and that is as an energy but not a personal or caretaker god.

Same bullpucky the THEISTS tried after Darwin died...they claimed he'd converted and come to JEEEEESU! Total nonsense.

Rather telling that they waited until after he was dead, and therefore unable to give them a scathing refutation, to claim that.

The Pope can bless anyone or anything he likes, but that does not make them catholic or Christian. Stephen did not believe in a "disembodied, all-powerful, benevolent consciousness" god and stated it publicly many times. For the Chatholics to try and claim him as one of theirs is an insult to Stephen and all logical, reasonable and inteligent humans. This is in the same box as the Catholic Church trying to deny Hitler was not a practicing Catholic and that their preists systematically sexually abuse children. Sorry but with the increase of thinking, logical, intelligent people freely admitting they are Atheists, the religious are becoming a desperate joke.

This links to Snopes which describes it as "False".

He did not believe in anything that lacked facts i believe

Obvious nonsense, made up by someone with an agenda. A bit like most of the Bible, really.

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No. Of course not. But why would the theists tell the truth when their entire universe is steeped in lies?