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Originally Posted by Mutt
Actually in Donny's case religion probably has played a part in making him the fuck up he is today. His father is a minister, I forget what Christian denomination but I think evangelical of some sort - there's a lot of very weird shit to deal with if you're an intelligent kid and Donny is fairly intelligent.
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One could also just as easily make the argument that religion probably helped him in that being in the environment he was/is in, caused him to better manage his mental disorder(s).
If i had to bet, I would guess that Donny's father shares the same mental issues that Donny has. Not learned, not the product of environment, but heritable personality traits that all point towards psychopathy (namely megalomania), sociopathy, anti social personality disorder and narcissism. His father may have been 100% sincere in his practice of religion and in his beliefs. Or as i've said, hyper-religiosity can also simply be a symptom of several mental disorders. Donny clearly is not hyper religious or sincere in his religious beliefs. Regardless, they both likely reveled in their ability to get everyone to gather in front of them and listen intently, as they position themselves as Gods anointed representative on earth.
What better place to take refuge for a psychopath or sociopath than by surrounding themselves with a community where "forgiveness is next to Godliness" and where its accepted that we all "sin", we all need forgiveness and its everyone's responsibility to get that person back on track? It's the perfect place for a nutjob to hide in plain sight.
I would guess that Donny found "religion" right after Belinda dumped him and he was already failing in this biz and that what seems to at a minimum, be narcissistic personality disorder drove him to doing something where he could be in the spotlight, be an unchallenged authority and get him more personal attention than he could manage and put himself in a position to manipulate and victimize others.