ABC News "Discovers" "Secret Bible Code" on Military Equipment
Here is an interesting e-mail I just received. Apparently ABC News just "discovered" super secret Jesus Bible code on some of our military equipment. From the article:
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 Michigan company, as you can guess, is Trijicon. Trijicon has been putting Bible verse references on their equipment from day one as far as I know. But of course according ABC News this is some great pushing of Christianity. Oh but this is classic:
"This is probably the best example of violation of the separation of church and state in this country," said Weinstein. "It's literally pushing fundamentalist Christianity at the point of a gun against the people that we're fighting. We're emboldening an enemy."
I call bullshit.
This entire thing is stupid. First of all this isn't some mysterious "Bible code" it's printed in plain sight. It's always been there and Trijicon has never been shy about it. Second I doubt any enemy combatants can see that tiny print while they're being shot at and hence aren't going to know they were shot by a "Jesus gun." Those of us big into guns have known about this for a long time meanwhile ABC News reports this as if they discovered it and it's some kind of grand conspiracy.
Don't like the fact that Bible versus are printed on your optic equipment? Here are two options. First file it off. Second buy something else. I understand military personnel generally don't have a choice in the equipment they are issued but for us private citizens it's a right we enjoy, voting with our dollar. If you're in the military and it offends you so dearly that your equipment has a Bible verse printed on it realize you probably have other equipment with similar "secret" markings.
This isn't a separation of church and state issue. This is an issue of a private company making a product. It's not military officials making soldiers pray to a Christian god, or forcing soldiers to carry a copy of the Catholic Bible. It's some markings on a gun put there by the manufacturer because the founder believes in Christianity. Quite a few companies do things like this.