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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (526687)11/6/2009 5:08:58 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1576972
 
The last real Christian terrorist I can think of was John Brown.

No so fast, bucko. Eric Rudolph was our last Christian terrorist:

"Rudolph was born in Merritt Island, Florida. After his father, Robert, died in 1981, he moved with his mother and siblings to Nantahala, Macon County, in western North Carolina. He attended ninth grade at the Nantahala School but dropped out after that year and worked as a carpenter with his older brother Daniel. His mother believed in the racist Christian Identity movement and instilled this ideology in him."

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T. McVeigh was more a mixed bag......a registered Republican and devout Catholic as a boy....but drifted away from religion when he got older:

"Political

McVeigh's only known political affiliations were his voter registration with the Republican Party when he lived in New York and a membership in the National Rifle Association while in the military.[11] McVeigh self-identified as a libertarian in a statement that was reported by MSNBC.com and The Washington Post;[12] and while in federal prison, he voted for Libertarian candidate Harry Browne in the 1996 United States presidential election.[13]

Religious

Throughout his childhood, he and his father were Roman Catholics and often attended daily Mass. In a recorded interview with Time magazine[14] McVeigh professed his belief in "a God", although he said he had "sort of lost touch with" Catholicism and "I never really picked it up, however I do maintain core beliefs." The Guardian reported that McVeigh wrote a letter to them claiming to be an agnostic.[15] McVeigh at one time said that he believed the universe was guided by natural law, energized by some universal higher power that showed each person right from wrong if they paid attention to what was going on inside them. He had also said, "Science is my religion."[16]"


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