Eric Lichtblau
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And so they were inspiring him to his horrible mission before he went into the tree life.
Yeah, he seems to have become enamored with this at a young age, even beginning as a preteen.
I spoke with one of his few friends.
He was, you know, your prototypical loner, and he seemed to become fascinated with kind of the dark side of gaming and into Germany's role in World War II, became interested in Hitler and Hitler.
Hitler's ideas about racial purity.
And his father seems to have really pushed him towards this through a very anti-gay philosophy at home.
He was a convert to Catholicism.
His mother was Catholic.
And Sam went to a school that was a magnet school for the arts in Orange County, where, as you might imagine, there were a fair number of LGBT kids there.
And Sam, although he was a bit of a brooding loner, did show some inclination for arts.
He had done some theater stuff, but he really didn't fit in there.
And he really resented his parents sending him there.
And it was by all accounts, a bad fit.
And he resisted, especially the LGBT culture.
And he had his father telling him at every chance he could that homosexuality was wrong and it was to be avoided at all costs.
And then he began to loathe just about anyone who was not white Christian.
He was in a very evangelical Christian home in a setting in school where there were lots of kids who were minorities.
There were lots of kids who were LGBT.
And after a while, he hated just about everyone who was not like him.
He did eventually switch high schools for a...