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To: Humbug; None; nobody

99% of the replies that are directed to me are worthless drivel. Yours isn’t. Most people want to be heard, I usually dont. May I suggest that a return to a cocaine habit, can lead to health problems, paranoia, lies, drink,other drugs and certainly the influence of Satan. Corapi has a history of lies and drug problems subsequent to the priesthood and it seems during it. His alias also used by his father of ‘Coradi’.


29 posted on 07/08/2011 8:09:53 AM PDT by RBIEL2
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I figure Corapi will be back at SOLT.
When he’s out of money with nowhere to go, if that day ever occurs.


30 posted on 07/08/2011 8:11:07 AM PDT by RBIEL2
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You're right about that, cocaine is probably at the root of his problems. Hard to give it up even if one sincerely wants to do so. And i would like to think that Corapi at least early on was sincere in his desire to go straight and to be a good priest. It's hard to say though. It'd be interesting to see when he first began stretching the truth about his military career. That to me would be a good indicator of around the time he started losing his way again. If however he was telling tall tales about being a Green Beret (or very nearly being one) from the start....

As to returning to SOLT some day, i would be shocked. He seems to be intent on burning bridges.

I am reminded of "The Face in the Crowd" when i think of his meteoric rise and fall. I could see it playing out in a similar way too - at the end of the movie (should i put a spoiler alert here? lol) the Andy Griffith character has been exposed as a fraud, loses his tv show, loses his girlfriend, everything, but he still thinks he can use his charm to win the public back. And the Walter Matthau character (his nemesis) reflects that maybe he can indeed do so in a year or two, after some people start to forgive or at least forget, but it won't be the same, he'll never have the power and influence he once had. I think Corapi is looking to go down that road. Could still have a following, could create something of a cult around himself of diehard followers, but certainly nothing like what he once had. But i think it'd be enough for him to avoid having to go crawling back to SOLT.

For what it's worth i am also reminded of the old Greek saying about how you can't judge whether a man has lived a happy/good life until the very end. How differently Corapi would have been remembered (and even revered) if he had passed away a few years ago. Some, i have no doubt, would even be pushing him for sainthood by now. Instead, it all falls down around him. His whole life, his whole priesthood, is thrown into an entirely different light.

31 posted on 07/08/2011 9:53:39 AM PDT by Humbug
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