Posted on 12/10/2007 7:29:48 PM PST by familyop
Matthew Murray was kicked out of a missionary training program five years ago for strange behavior...Murray performed a pair of dark rock songs at a concert at the mission that made fellow workers "pretty scared,"...which included a song by rock band Linkin Park...Werner, of Balneario Camborius, Brazil, said he had a bunk near Murray's and that Murray would roll around in bed and make noises. "He would say, 'Don't worry, I'm just talking to the voices,' " Werner said. "He'd say, 'Don't worry, Richard. You're a nice guy. The voices like you.' "
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“You’re calling us naive?!!”
Not exactly, but I’m definitely tired of seeing cases of obvious spiritual oppression attributed to “chemical imbalances in the brain”...
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.
Because this has nothing to do with home schooling. The guy was 24 years old. How is home schooling pertinent (other than as a liberal “narrative”)?
I can’t wait for the militant homeschoolers to claim this one....
Ping for later
“Spiritual oppression”? Who oppressed his spirit?
The guy was a psychotic sociopath. You don’t need higher or lower powers to explain it.
It's potentially pertinent if the "why and how" of the homeschooling decision has anything to do with how he turned out. I'm guessing that his parents (described as very, very religious) made the homeschooling decision out of fear of what "the world" would do to their boy. If he was unstable to begin with, and they pushed him too hard and over the edge, "homeschooling" may well be a factor.
The ultimate rebellion is to cast one's lot with the ultimate Rebel, the one who taught rebellion to Adam and Eve...
There a group of well-connected bullies terrorized other students with impunity, due to spineless police, local government and school authorities, until two of their victims snapped.
Something definitely stinks in Colorado. It looks more and more like place not to raise a family.
Oh, please! Every time a homeschooler is involved in a crime, the MSM touts it like crazy. How often do you see news coverage which says, “This criminal was a public school student.” Sheesh! There are families who are crazy who homeschool for the wrong reasons. Please don’t paint us all with the same brush.
“Null and void” wrote: “The voices don’t like you...”
I’m well aware of that. They’ll pretend when it suits their purposes, but in reality they don’t like any of us.
"yoU're juSt jeAlouS tHe vOicEs tAlk To mE"
Agreed - its just beyond what I was initially thinking.
This guy graduated from home schooling over six years previously. He is soley responsible for his actions now. The homeschooling connection is really only relevant in that people who come from conservative christian families and then rebel often times end up the worst of the lot. Kind of like Stalin who trained to become a priest before he rebelled and became a militant communist atheist.
“Youngblood” wrote: “’Spiritual oppression’? Who oppressed his spirit?”
Fallen angels, also known as evil spirits or demons.
Don’t go there. There is enough true evil in this world. Not everyone has a perfect body that works forever. We start ending it in the first nine months. Once, if we are born we might not make it out of the NICU.
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