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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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Posted By John Grooms on Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:07 PM
Here’s something you’d expect from al-Qaeda rather than the U.S. Marines: religious scripture inscribed on weapons. ABC reports that Trijicon, a Michigan company that sells sights for high-powered rifles to the U.S. military, has been inscribing New Testament passages on the sights — not the entire passage, but the citation, such as John 8:12, or Luke 3:20. We’re not talking about a few sights here and there: apparently, all the sights from Trijicon — which has contracts for around a million of them — are encoded with New Testament verse references. The sights are being used by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as in the training of those countries’ troops.
The problem — other than the obvious disconnect between the Prince of Peace and killing people — is that American military rules ban troops from promoting any religion in Iraq or Afghanistan. The company says the verses “have always been there,” and that those who oppose the verses are “not Christian.”
One of those critics, Michael Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says, “It allows the Mujahedeen, the Taliban, al Qaeda and the insurrectionists and jihadists to claim they're being shot by Jesus rifles."
Spokespersons for the Army and the Marine Corps said the two services hadn’t known about the biblical markings, and that “discussions” were taking place regarding what should be done about them. What can you say except, Jesus, what are these people thinking?
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