I don’t know about that. I was homeschooled and commented on the previous thread about how I thought this guy might be an extreme case of the homeschool rebel that had turned his back on Christianity and everything that his parents believed. However, it sounds like he had much worse problems than simple rebellion and bitterness.
The ultimate rebellion is to cast one's lot with the ultimate Rebel, the one who taught rebellion to Adam and Eve...
Right. Like his parents homeschooled him so as not to expose his nuttiness to the mainstream.
I don’t think the fact this young man was homeschooled created his behavior anymore than the public school the Columbine shooters’ attended created their behavior. Obviously all these kids had serious problems that were not identified by anyone either in or out of their respective school situations.
As I also pointed out on another thread, in my county homeschooling has become the “dumping ground” for students that the public schools begin to find problematic, either in terms of test scores or behavior. As a leader in the local and state homeschool community I have noticed a marked increase in calls from parents to whom the public school has “suggested” homeschool might be a better option for their child.