Did he also learn everything he needed to know about christianity from Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City? What a jerk! The picture was found at the blog of the wonderful Yellowdog Granny.
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Did he also learn everything he needed to know about christianity from Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City? What a jerk! The picture was found at the blog of the wonderful Yellowdog Granny.
I heard that the letters in his license plate are also somehow related to the KKK
ReplyDelete"Did he also learn everything he needed to know about christianity from Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City?"
ReplyDeleteI don't see how. Although raised Catholic, by his own admission, McVeigh was an agnostic.
In the eighth paragraph of this article in the UK Guardian, it says:
"In his letter [to a Buffalo, NY newspaper], McVeigh said he was an agnostic but that he would "improvise, adapt and overcome", if it turned out there was an afterlife. 'If I'm going to hell,' he wrote, 'I'm gonna have a lot of company.'"
That doesn't sound like a practicing Christian to me.
McVeigh not only grew up Catholic, but while admitting he was not a practicing Catholic he also said he still retained the core beliefs including a belief in god. Credence is given to this by the fact that he asked to see a Catholic priest the night before his execution.
ReplyDeleteHe was also a supporter of David Koresh's sect (while a weird sect - still a christian one).
Would it have made you feel better if I had referred to Scott Roeder instead? There are many violent christians I could have made the point with.
"There are many violent christians I could have made the point with."
ReplyDeleteMohamed Atta
Waleed al-Shehri
Wail al-Shehri
Abdulaziz al-Omari
Satam al-Suqami
Marwan al-Shehhi
Fayez Banihammad
Mohand al-Shehri
Hamza al-Ghamdi
Ahmed al-Ghamdi
Hani Hanjour
Khalid al-Mihdhar
Majed Moqed
Nawaf al-Hazmi
Salem al-Hazmi
Ziad Jarrah
Ahmed al-Haznawi
Ahmed al-Nami
Saeed al-Ghamdi
And that's just on one day (September 11, 2001).
Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah Building on April 19, 1995. Scott Roeder murdered George Tiller on May 31, 2009, more than 14 years later. I don't know of a single Christian (clergy or layperson) who condoned either act.
Be that as it may, anyone who equates barring women from the clergy to honor killings will probably say this is "exactly the same thing" too.
I'd like to bip that dude all the way to planet 9
ReplyDeleteThere are about a million muslims who don't condone the actions of al-Queda, too. My point, since you seem to have missed it, is that an entire religion shouldn't be judged by the actions of a single or even a few individuals.
ReplyDeleteSorry. Hit the wrong key. Meant to say about a BILLION muslims.
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