ABC has a truly bizarre and disturbing story. Brian Ross reports that a military contractor has encoded hidden New Testament Bible passages on high-powered rifle sites. The contractor is Trijicon, which apparently confirmed the practice.
The biblical references appear as, in one case, 2COR4:6 — an apparent reference to Second Corinthians 4:6 of the New Testament, which reads: “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
The company received $660 million under a contract to supply 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps. It has other contracts with the Army.
U.S. regulations prohibits proselytizing of any religion. Moreover, such additions to military equipment should violate the contract which presumably did not ask for biblical citations with gun sights.
The use of biblical citations will only reaffirm the view of many that the U.S. went into Iraq and Afghanistan on a “crusade.” This view was magnified by Bush calling its a crusade and later citing Biblical passages to convince other leaders that this was a worthy, if not divinely ordained, effort. His subordinates appeared to keep Bush in a Biblical mindset by adding prominent quotations from the Bible in reports on the war, here.
In my view, this raises serious legal questions that should result in a review of this contract. As a minimum, the contractor should have to pay for the removal of the citations. We have to able to trust contractors not to carry out their hidden or religious agenda as part of a contract with the American people. Just imagine if these were citation to the Koran. If the company wishes to proselytize it should do so with theocratic governments. Perhaps the Swiss Guards that the Vatican need a few sights and citations.
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Just think of me like Motel 6.
We’ll leave the light on for you.
When you summon the courage to confront the reasons why you stooped to editing printed material to fit your argument, I’ll be here for you.
And most people realize that if you had owned up to editing that scripture to fit your argument, you’d have posted it by now.
Instead of awkwardly alluding to it.
“It’s a push. Place your bets again gentlemen and ladies.” -Stoop
I’m offering better odds.
On how long you’ll awkwardly pretend you’re fooling anyone by trying to conceal your shame by fixating on the fact that I’m still responding to you.
See Stoop…most people realize that I couldn’t respond to you….if you did not speak to me first.
In fact, until then lets just call you “stoop”.
To remind us of how you stooped to editing printed works in order to support your position.
It’s a push. Place your bets again gentlemen and ladies.
When you summon the courage to confront the reasons why you stooped to editing printed material to fit your argument, I’ll be here for you.
With the light on.
See mister canard?
Your posts are so predictable that I’ve already written them for you.
So we see I was correct 2 and a half hours ago when I correctly identified this;
“ThirtyPercenter 1, January 21, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Yet no one has yet to examine their own words and their own attacks on myself, my faith and the faith of millions.
Instead we have silly word games to detract and try to drag me down to defending against a thousand flies so I look like a flyswatter.
So they can say “gee 30, you sure post a lot” or “gee 30, you seem angry” or “gee 30, you said you were leaving”.”
So we see the light was too bright.
LATEST BETTING LINE:
I can safely say the over-under on 30%’er’s inane reply posts for this thread is now 4. I’ll cover the “overs.” Any takers? BTW the over-under for 30%’er sticking around is 12 days. Should anyone challenge his “religion” with even a scintilla of logic or even the mildest of derision(This means you Byron, Duh, and Rafflaw and Gyges), the over-under is when hell freezes over. The over-under for posts repeating my name stands at 1,236. I am betting the overs. Lastly, the odds of 30%’er actually going back and reading my post wherein I specifically answered his oft-repeated question now stands at 264,543 to 1.
The ancient Romans knew that baiting those whacked out Christians was good sport. Now we know why.
…that’s not too bright for you is it?
Well here mespo, lest you claim I never did anything for you…let me just help you with that light there.
Here is how you posted the Mark 7:10.
“Whoever curses father or mother shall die” (Mark 7:10 NAB)”
And here is how the scripture actually reads;
– Mark 7:10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
I was wondering how long it would take for some “new person” to show up to post some gibberish to help conceal mespo’s exposed rewriting of printed materials.
4 minutes.
Its a new world record folks.
Wow. The fun never stops.
Since I was around 5 years old I’ve had an entity running a continuum where they would yell at me from cars at a distance and ululate that they hated Swedes and would shout out these Religious Quotes on how I was their tabernacle sacrifice , when they said something it was the tongue , how every quantum they created meant something , how history never changed and etc….. Are you sure are entire Black Operational Government isn’t based on some kind of religious extremism. Maybe English Socialism ? Bin Laden might be coming in a close second.
…oh yea.
lol
When you’re man enough to confront the fact that you have been caught changing printed works to fit your arguments, we’ll be right here.
Here.
Observe the light.
Here is how you posted the Mark 7:10.
“Whoever curses father or mother shall die” (Mark 7:10 NAB)”
And here is how the scripture actually reads;
– Mark 7:10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
And don’t worry.
I’ll leave the light on for you.