"Wow.  Your famiy must be really proud of you."
"You'd think."

He claims experiential knowlegde of God.  Either God is playing a nasty game of hide and seek with me or he has confused God with his sense of right and wrong.  Since he forces me into his language I'll take it: "I'm leaving August 12th, and I KNOW this is right."
 
Let the storm blow.

Family
"One day we need to reconnect."
"That sounds painful and dangerous."