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 alienate themselves from me and that’s all they are looking for now.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Oh yeah... Those are the last words of an atheist -- marching out into the abyss with an ill-placed confidence in himself ...
"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul..."
Riiight...
I'll put my Trust in the real Captain ...
Hebrews 2:10 For it became HIM, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Anyone who parses words like “I believe in a god” isn’t talking about THE ONE TRUE GOD. I understand the rage, but have no sympathy for McVeigh’s expression of it. As I get more furious with our PINO and all his minions, I wonder what tactics will work to bring them back under lawful control.