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Originally Posted by Coonskinner
Sis, I am sorry if I gave the wrong impression. I didn't think you were being insensitive. I actually was going to say something else, and thought perhaps it might sound insensitive if I did.
I am very saddened by Nathan's condition.
His ego was always pretty big, and it wasn't helped any by the fawning and accolades the liberal folks used to heap on him when he would make his verbose, witty, but sometimes pretty thin arguments against good doctrine and lifestyle choices.
I did my best to be friendly to him while still debating him on issues, because I hoped to help him.
He was very bitter, and got a lot of affirmation in his bitterness from some.
It didn't all turn out well.
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Nathan's "liberalism" was not what it appeared. It is quite clear that for a long time he was on a path that really had nothing to do with any spectrum of Pentecost of even Christianity.
His little visit to the liberal wing of Pentecost was just a speed bump on his path.
I do not at all accept that us libs are somehow responsible for his current situation by "encuraging him". I think it is absurd to think that somehow keeping him around conservative old time Pentecostal standards would somehow have kept his mind from going where it has gone.
Like you I am trying to be kind and will not say what I really think other than to say I think narcissism to the max is involved, pyschological issues, and I have a pretty good guess that he was not told "no" very often growing up.