This really intrigues me. I'm thinking of calling it "Holy Warrior Syndrome." Several Cs I've met have had it bad. Gore has it the worst.
He can't admit anything to the Satan-worshipping-materialist-atheist-communist foe. Catch him on something and you get snarly abuse, buckets of slops over your head, distractions, evasions, and finally flight.
But then you catch him on another thread, same old act in progress.
He can't admit anything to the Satan-worshipping-materialist-atheist-communist foe....
That's why I've started needling his conscience, or whatever's left of it. Deep down, they know they're lying.
Its an evolved trait.