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.
For the full story, click here.
If you didn’t want my responses to your questions and comments to and about me, one would think you’d stop making them.
ThirtyPercenter
“This is the kind of crap reasonable Christians have to listen to every day.”
I’m pretty sure that’s part of the deal when you take up your cross.
“No need to pretend.
You’ve done more encores than Cats.” -Pinandpuller
Once again the dishonest technique of criticizing someone, then when they respond criticize them for responding.
ThirtyPercenter
“And don’t pretend I’m crying or complaining.”
No need to pretend.
You’ve done more encores than Cats.
“You started the name-calling thing-which I would think is antithetical to the Gospel you keep going back to.”
Identifying you correctly as a troll is not name calling. You started with me with your mini inquisition. Do we need to repost the beginning of the exchange?
And I don’t recall Jesus hesitating to call a hypocrite a hypocrite, nor Paul, nor Phillip..nor the Baptist, nor any of the apostles. You want to dish it out then hide behind the skirts of my beliefs. Well sometimes you’ll find that not everyone’s going to roll over every time you say boo.
Perhaps you need to reread the bible you think you know.
ThirtyPercenter
“Maybe it’s less your belief and more that you are a pompous ass.”
-Pinandpuller
“Typical behavior of the 4 year old when cornered on facts.
“I don’t like you anymore!” (lower lip stuck out)
And brilliant timing I might add for one who comes in to harass an individual, and when that individual stands up to their onslaught, they’re a “pompous ass” for standing up to them.”
You started the name-calling thing-which I would think is antithetical to the Gospel you keep going back to.
“Its the ole “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” childs game.”
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
“Well, given the choice of cow towing to your inquisition like attacks or standing up to them, I’ll choose standing up to them every time.”
My mom grounded me to my room once when I was a kid-now I know how Anne Frank felt.
“Religious maniacs have survived the test of time. Like syphilis, warts and drunks they’re a kind of social disease that we have learned to live with because we have had to not because they were good for anything.
In the modern world religious maniacs are not just good for nothing, they work hard at actually being a detriment.
For every nice nun running an orphanage there are ten thousand evil twats hiding behind her good example. ” – Future President Gingrich’s New Best Friend
Thanks for proving my case sezu but I already had more than enough examples of religious intolerance.
Religious maniacs have survived the test of time. Like syphilis, warts and drunks they’re a kind of social disease that we have learned to live with because we have had to not because they were good for anything.
In the modern world religious maniacs are not just good for nothing, they work hard at actually being a detriment.
For every nice nun running an orphanage there are ten thousand evil twats hiding behind her good example.
ThirtyPercenter, you ignorant fuck, you piously lied to us when you said you hear all these awful things nowhere at all and in the next breath you pompously announce that you spend a lot of time trolling liberal websites to get your daily dose of self-righteous indignation.
You’re a mental case. You need a pill. Something calming. Something with less sugar in it than you’re used to.
You people keep bashing the religious faith of millions.
Keep on.
And when the right wing takes back the House and the White House next, you can all sit around and comfort yourselves with the knowledge of how much smarter than us poor dumb religious folk you are.
As you welcome your new Republican run country.
Intractability Stephen?
You mean like this?
“Stephen Pitt 1, January 19, 2010 at 11:58 pm
No, we may not be interested at all in a religious perspective. Religion is a pox.”
The inquisition was self-inflicted by intractability. Yes, you sabotaged yourself. It had nothing at all to do with us. The fact stands that Christians supported the Third Reich. Not all but too many. Enough to give Hitler what he wanted: Legitimacy.
Whew! That was interesting.
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Keep laughing you geniuses.
Keep laughing.
I think this is what 30%er is trying to say.
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ThirtyPercenter
“How many more “questions” do you have for me?”
70X7.
“If your inquisition is finished I’d like to bid adieu to you and this place.”
You keep coming back. But if you’re serious don’t forget to dust off your sandals.
“I’ve been to many left wing blogs in the past but I can honestly say this one is “special”. ”
Wow-all the right wing neocon idiot immature pudpuller trolls ran you out of a “left wing” blog.
“Too special for me.”
Now you know how Rifqa Bary feels…not!
Yes Stephen. We all support Hitler.
Just like all black people are criminals.
Just like all Jews are cheap.
Just like all Mexicans are….
You’ve seen one.
You’ve seen em all.
Let bigotry ring.
No, we may not be interested at all in a religious perspective. Religion is a pox. It has been made abundantly clear that religious intractability produces war and discord. No, I don’t expect you’ll ever learn, just like the Christians who supported Adolf Hitler.
http://www.light-to-dark.com/t_equals.html
Ok. Was that the last question?
If so I shall take my leave of this place.
Good night, and good luck.
Duh
“What if the sights were not produced specifically by the military, but instead, purchased, without modification, by military supply officers who knew nothing about the encrypted reference? It’s not like somebody would know what the combination of letters and numbers that appear on the scope are that obvious.”
I think that the military writes specifications on products they procure.
If they ordered 2X sights and Trijicon shipped 4X sights then there would be a violaion of the contract. If they shipped 4,000 sights with no reticle, there would be a violation of the contract because they would be unusable.
The serial number the company uses has no effect on the function of the sights.