Bible References Inscribed On Military Weapons
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This is not helpful when we accuse others of being the ones waging a holy war.
Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found.
The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers. The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army.
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That’s nothing- have you seen the next generation cybernetic exoskeleton suit they’ve been contracted to develop for the military?
But seriously, uh, that’s just creepy. And not very Jesus-like.
When the theocracy comes I’m throwing shit balloons at the pilgrims.
Reason Bless America
I’m sure your Christ is thrilled to see His gospel inscribed on weapons.
As for that company’s proselytizing, their contract should be voided.
At the risk of channeling The Rude Pundit, I’m sick and tired of so-called Christians ramming their beliefs down everyone’s throats and then crying foul when someone reminds them about the separation of church and state upon which this country’s fundamental freedoms are based. You fucking people want a theocracy? Great. That gives you something in common with Iran’s mullahs and the Taliban. You people still want a theocracy? Support the space program so we can find you one of those extrasolar Earths and leave us to live our lives as we — not you — see fit. Now kindly fuck off.
/diatribe
A couple of inscriptions from a gun manufacturer is being compared to Jihad.
Oliver can you be more of a whinny little fool?????
So if a manufacturer put a little passage from the Koran
on the weapons given to the U.S. Army you’d still call OW a whiner?
Hmmmm.
You know, somewhere deep in this story there’s a really awful joke waiting to be made about landmines and ‘holy noodly appendages’, and I’d just like to pre-empt it by saying it would be in bad taste if someone were to make it.
He’s comparing it to Jihad.
Reading is a wonderful thing
Another way for religion to seep into the government.
This is really offensive especially since we have soldiers that practice other religions besides Christianity or non at all that are serving in the military.
That’s a stretch. Then again, so is trying to substitute “a couple” for “800,000″.
Again,
hmmmmm. . . . .
The problem is that for too many pundits and politicians, this is a religious war.
A couple of inscriptions from a gun manufacturer is being compared to Jihad.
Works for me. Thanks for pointing that out.
This is pretty solid evidence that our “Christian” military suppliers consider this a holy war, which is the definition of jihad, at least as far as the contractor is concerned. This country has no place for religious zealots preaching while taxpayers foot the bill, a clear violation of the First Amendment.
You DO appreciate the First Amendment, don’t you?
Maybe they should just change the inscription to WWJS, which at least would be open to other interpretations.
A couple of inscriptions from a gun manufacturer is being compared to Jihad.
Yes, as a matter of fact. Do you know what Jihad is, Jo? A couple of inscriptions. What matters is the actions of its believers. Stop and ask yourself: Is a Holy War really a good idea?
Trijicon was originally called Armson, and it was started in 1981.
The products made by this company were good enough to be adopted by the government. So, if the government went out and started using something that they thought was top of the line, and if the company had already been inscribing these codes on their products, then where’s the controversy?
Long before there was a contract with DoD, this is how the company did things. The government accepted the products in order to give their people the best possible sights for weapons. Shouldn’t we applaud the efforts of our government to acquire top of the line equipment? These are sights for weapons; not the actual weapons themselves, by the way. Trijicon doesn’t make weapons that I can see–they just make the optical sights. In other words, they make bling for guns.
People can say what they will, but I don’t see the controversy. I see the opportunity for phony outrage. Chick-fil-A isn’t open on Sundays, but, when I was in Chick-fil-A, I saw a soldier from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in there in his regular uniform. Does that mean that the soldier endorses the decision by the Christian owner of Chick-fil-A that he will close on Sundays, and that he will then take up the Holy Crusade against the Islamic fundamentalists who are denied chicken sammiches on Sundays?
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Jesus would be proud to know that we’re killing and maiming in his name.
I had a picture of Jesus tattooed on my wiener in hopes procreating will offset this hare-brained freakin’ idea.
Maybe they just decided to stop consulting the Book of Arnaments.
Cooperative police action enforcing international rule of law: good.
Escalating wars waged by the major “peace and love” religions: bad.
And there is more here on this newly burgeoning outrage.
Until you have risked your life for this country shut the hell up about what is and what is not appropriate on a weapon. I don’t remember seeing any of you whiners out there with me. Contrary to those who have tried to re-write history this is a Christian Nation and was founded on Christian values and principles and if its being crammed down your throat try living in another country for awhile and see what gets crammed down your throat. Some of you are pathetic in the way you regurgitate political talking points as if they are facts. Read the Constitution for yourselves and read the supportive papers written by the founding fathers, then you can make your own decision.