I know that piece is painful. How can it not be. On the other hand given the circumstances and interactions of the time it is is difficult terrible situation which also must be for him. The fact he looked across the divide and saw other people over there deserving of freedom. That was the epiphany which led to his self-destruction and our preservation. The atheist he was to see this “Christian" idea — even if we are not the same we are equal in the eyes of God. As has been the case so much in this country, it is the atheist who sees and embraces the Truth of Jesus