Many times when the issue of Islamic terrorism comes up, some people claim that Oklahama bomber Timothy McVeigh was a Christian. Actually McVeigh was an agnostic.
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Timothy McVeigh
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Psychotic Parrot
Looks like Jesus was the Messiah afterall then.
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ProdigalSon
Just another inside job like 911.
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blondie
But what religion was he raised in? What were his beliefs at the time of the bombing not months/years later?
Time m agazine in 2001.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,109478,00.html
Time : Are you religious?
McVeigh : I was raised Catholic. I was confirmed Catholic (received the sacrament of confirmation). Through my military years, I sort of lost touch with the religion. I never really picked it up, however I do maintain core beliefs.
Time : Do you believe in God?
McVeigh : I do believe in a God, yes. But that ' s as far as I want to discuss. If I get too detailed on some things that are personal like that, it gives people an easier way [to] alienate themselves from me and that ' s all they are looking for now.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36135258/ns/msnbc_tv-meet_the_faces_of_msnbc/
In his letter, 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." His body is to be cremated and his ashes scattered in a secret location.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/2001/LAW/06/11/mcveigh.candiotti.otsc/
In the end, with McVeigh's attorneys willing to fight on, McVeigh pulled the plug.
Unrepentant, we were told, to the end.
Until the day he died. Then, things changed.
Prison Warden Harley Lappin offered Tim a Catholic priest. According to McVeigh's lawyer Robert Nigh, Tim said he would consider it.
Nigh said after a 15-minute final meeting with his client during which they discussed whether McVeigh, a self-described agnostic, would see a priest and receive the final sacraments of the Catholic faith, McVeigh agreed.
Strapped to a gurney, McVeigh asked to see a priest.
The Bureau of Prisons says McVeigh received the sacrament called the Anointing of the Sick by an unidentified prison chaplain.
That sacrament includes a confession and absolution of sins.
Did McVeigh confess?
"I think it speaks for itself," Nigh said.