As for your friend and his particular pathology, I suspect it has more to do with a preoccupation with being able to claim the mantle of victimhood than with anything that's actually happened to him. As Mark Twain once wryly noted, "I have . . . had many troubles, most of which never happened." The appeal to being wronged is meant to solicit sympathy, and it really wrecks the ploy when someone starts getting into specifics. You'll see the same behavior in a four-year-old, who goes running to Mom or Dad, tearfully sobbing out the sad story of a horrible injustice ("Bobby hit me for No Good Reason!"
. Upon further inquiry, it turns out that Bobby didn't hit little Marblehead, but pushed him away because he was being a complete pest and ignored several warnings from Bobby to leave him alone.
In this instance, it has to do with religion, but there are any number of instances where it has to do with some other perceived injustice, many of which likewise never happened.
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