Er, because he may well be employing it to generate an emotional response for the purpose of garnering some sympathy or at least a lessening of the drubbing he's been taking in other threads. Then, too, it could simply be to draw other christians to his side. Either way, coming at this remove from the proper time to make an introduction which might have contained this, it smacks of disingenuity or a heightened state of self-delusion.
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