Reply #12: That wasn't mentioned in the A&E

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biography. He was a Beatles fan and believed everything John said. So of course when he started doing drugs it wasn't his fault, it was John's. If they did drugs it must be right.

He got in trouble due to drugs while visiting his grandmother. He cut his hair short and joined the church.
John became an enemy due to the Christ statement (and John's further explanation didn't wash for him) and also because he was a fake. It was the lyrics "Imagine no possessions" when John was rich and owned fancy homes, proving he was a fake.

He put it all together when he read Catcher in the Rye..and identified with main character.

No talk of devil worship. They did say he had a very seductive mother who talked much about why she only married to have him and would slip into bed with him at night. Sometimes when her husband tried to have sex she'd scream for her son to come in and save her. When the son married and moved she divorced and followed him.

He also abused his wife. But through all this he was strong in his identity as a Christian.
He did think he might be possessed (from drug use times) and got exorcism in jail and then refused more therapy.