A challenge to anyone I guess!

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Yes. I think he desperately needs help, and I worry that he doesn't have anyone around him who is capable of separating their religion from his care. I worry someone is in fact using all this to plunge him further into the religious fantasy.

I've thought about all our long-term theists. They must know us well enough now that if one of us did announce we suddenly believe in God, let alone have joined their religion, they wouldn't believe us. At least I assume they wouldn't. That makes me wonder why they persist.