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August 9, 2008 | 2:59 pm

Scientist accused of anthrax killings was a religious man

From the mind of Bruce Ivins, the government scientist who apparently committed suicide last week as the FBI prepared to charge him with the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five, came these letters, published in the Frederick (Md.) News Post:

In one letter he praises a rabbi for refusing to engage in dialogue with a controversial local Muslim cleric.

“By blood and faith, Jews are God’s chosen, and have no need for ‘dialogue’ with any gentile,“ Ivins wrote in 2006.

Earlier letters suggest that he saw President Bush’s re-election as a victory for evangelicals.

“You can get on board or get left behind, because that Christian Nation Express is pulling out of the station!“ he wrote after the election.

Ivins killed himself as the U.S. Justice Department prepared to arrest him. Ivins’ beliefs are significant because the 2001 attacker in notes appeared to be a radical Islamist, writing “Death to America, Death to Israel, Allah is Great.“

I see each of the Abrahamic faiths represented here, but I don’t think Ivins’ letters were a lesson in coexistence.

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Religious insane!

Comment by Guenter on 8/10/08 at 8:02 pm

In North Korea, people are sent to prison camps, often for ‘crimes’ committed by their parents or grandparents with no limitations on the brutality guards may inflict upon them. They survive by eating rats, cockroaches and snakes, and by cannabalism. In China, political prisoners have their organs harvested and sold on the black market for transplant. These are communist, atheistic, rational societies. Right? Compare the record for believcers and non-believers, and you will find that non-believers most often forfeit their humanity. Like you, Guenter. I checked out your insane website.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 8/10/08 at 9:45 pm

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