Not exactly what one thinks of when we discuss extremist religious views. Further, from what we know about his religious views - to say nothing of considerable evidence that he was mentally ill - he wanted the Catholic church to liberalize on the issue of female and married clergy. They have been so nice I would hate to break it to them that I really prefer Nietzsche to the Bible."Īs for alleged Anthrax mailer Bruce Ivins being supposedly motivated by his pro-life, Catholic views - well, that's a pretty unfounded assertion based on a lot of tenuous and anonymous sources. I do appreciate their charity, but I could really do without the condescension. I suppose the assumption is made that because I'm in here I must be a 'sinner' in need of salvation, and they would be glad to sell me a ticket to heaven, hawking this salvation like peanuts at a ballgame. "Most of them have, of course, an agenda mostly born-again Christians looking to save my soul. "Many good people continue to send me money and books," Rudolph writes in an undated letter.
Here's abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph in an interview with USA Today: I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." He famously declared that "Science is my religion," and his final words were quoting from Invictus: "I thank whatever gods may be/ for my unconquerable soul. As for his other examples, well, McVeigh was no Christian. Last February, Andrew Joseph Stack, angry at the federal government, flew a small plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas.īeinart is either largely ignorant, or has a pretty curious definition of "right-wing, extremist Christian." For one thing, I'm not sure that label applies in its entirety to Anders Breivik. That same year octogenarian neo-Nazi, James Wenneker von Brunn, shot a security guard at the U.S. (He already had been shot once, and his clinic had been bombed). In 2009, anti-abortion militants murdered Wichita doctor George Tiller. The only major WMD attack of the “war on terror” era-the 2001 anthrax mailings-apparently was the handiwork of a microbiologist angry that prominent Catholic politicians were pro-choice. That same year, Eric Rudolph bombed the Atlanta Olympics to protest abortion and international socialism. history prior to 9/11-the 1996 Oklahoma City bombing-was carried out by Timothy McVeigh, a white ex-Army officer with ties to the militia movement. There’s actually been a lot of right-wing, extremist Christian terrorism in the U.S.
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