I noticed someone in the media saying that Timothy McVeigh was a Christian, so I thought I would set the record straight.
Actually, according to this CNN interview with a McVeigh biographer, McVeigh was an agnostic.
Excerpt:
Question from chat room: Does McVeigh have any spiritual-religious beliefs?
Lou Michel: McVeigh is agnostic. He doesn’t believe in God, but he won’t rule out the possibility. I asked him, “What if there is a heaven and hell?”
He said that once he crosses over the line from life to death, if there is something on the other side, he will — and this is using his military jargon — “adapt, improvise, and overcome.” Death to him is all part of the adventure.
There is no such thing as a Christian terrorists, because Jesus Christ did not model terrorism for his followers, nor did he order his followers to act aggressively towards others.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
Also…In a letter to the Buffalo News daily in New York state McVeigh said he was an agnostic: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/jun/11/mcveigh.usa4
My head wants to explode every time some moral relativist pulls out McVeigh to show Christians are just a bunch of terrorists like followers of Islam. Grhhhh… And you are spot on! If a person follows the words and example of Christ he would not be a terrorist. However, one can follow the words and example of Mohammad, be faithful and be a terrorist. But then, that doesn’t fit the lefts narrative…
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I agree. Jesus Christ talked only about love, never about hurting anyone. Although that can be said about most prophets in most religions.
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The same argument is used with examples such as Eric Rudolph, the abortion doctor killer, who also was not a Christian. In the same vein, most who kill abortion doctors don’t do so as some kind of ode to Christ as much as to simply protect the unborn, even if they think it might please God. That isn’t quite the same as being directed by the teachings of Scripture since there is no teaching that would justify the belief. Not true with islam.
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Jesus did order his followers to act violently towards others in Luke 19:26-27: “But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.” or in Mathew 10 “Do not think that I have come to send peace on earth. I did not come to send peace, but a sword.”
Just because you interpret the bible one way doesn’t mean that others can’t look at these and interpret them in a different way.
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The Luke thing is a parable about a fictitious character, i.e. – “A man of noble birth” as stated in verse 12. You should read the whole parable, he is talking about his second coming, in any case. The day of judgment that occurs when Jesus returns.
The sword is a metaphor for family divisions over faith, as the context makes clear. You have to read the text in context, which mentions what the sword is for – dividing family members based on their decision to follow Christ, or not. In my home, I am against my mother and brother, for example. The Matthew 10 passage is one of my favorites.
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but that is the whole point of a parable – to convey a religious or moral story. My statement stands. And if you look at Mark 4, he even goes as far as to state that there are certain groups that he doesn’t even want to understand
As for Matthew 10, I saw nothing that indicated it was a metaphor, especially since you would have to take it in the context of first century jewish culture. You cannot project your current day culture and wishes on to the passage and interpret it as you would like it be.
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I wish I could carry WK around in my pocket and sick him on irrational, Christian bashing, liberals who make my head explode! Life would be easier than having to engage them myself. Besides, WK is way better at it than me.
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Tina, thank you so much for encouraging me. Sometimes I get discouraged, but it really helps to hear some kind words.
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Seems that you have fallen into the no true Scotsman logical fallacy. Using your logic, any bad, evil or wrong doing is not being perpetrated by Christians. All if the same comments can be made for secular humanism, which has not been responsible for any evil in the world.
You need to be logically consistent in your articles as you have used the opposite approach when discussing Mao Zedong, Adolf Hilter and other “secular” criminals.
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Can a person who calls or thinks of themselves as a Christian do evil. Of course. For example, Dietrich Bonhoeffer had to ask himself this question in his efforts to stop Hitler. What efforts to stop evil are “good” and what efforts to stop evil are “bad?” What if a Christian does a “bad or evil” thing thinking it was the “right” thing. I don’t think anyone here is saying Christians never make bad choices or do evil things. Every Christian sins every day in some form or fashion. The original point was McVeigh was a “self professed” agnostic, yet he is always trotted out by the left to make the moral equivalency that “See, Christianity is just as bad as Islam.” Further, unlike Islam when “self professed Christians” do evil acts, such as that Westboro hate-monger or abortion doctor killers, they are roundly and loudly condemned by the rest of the Christian community. The silence is deafening from the Islamic community and their failure to stop the evil in their own community is saddening to say the least.
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