Did you see any mention of his dad? He really seemed to have issues with his mom though. In his mind could this have been to punish her?
Absolutely. He wanted to attack her favorite pastor and what he stood for, Ted Haggard. He has another post on the forum where he tells that his mom was the keeper of who was "elite" in the church and who wasn't. And how she had prophesied over him that he would be a great minister.
I’ve known a number of families . . . who knows if this one is similar . . .
wherein the father was a workaholic . . .
the mother was more than a little mentally, emotionally twisted . . . isolated . . .
developed at least an emotionally incestuous relationship with the son—typically the youngest son . . .
but just physical abuse—if that’s “all” it was . . . would be more than sufficient to twist even a nonsensitive child into lots of mental, emotional horrors.
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