Yes, I agree with you. I was cynical about trusting man in the first place. I suppose there are several things to be thankful for here: this situation has revealed many good and decent people for what they truly are, solidified our suspicions about others and also ripped the masks off the pretenders.
I love that verse: He plunged me to victory, beneath the cleansing flood. Oooh, chills!
And the pretenders seem to be in vast majority, don't they?