Bible Coded High-Powered Military Rifles!

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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.

...One of the citations on the gun sights, 2COR4:6, is 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."

Other references include citations from the books of Revelation, Matthew and John dealing with Jesus as "the light of the world." John 8:12, referred to on the gun sights as JN8:12, reads, "Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
Full story here.

Well, I think it's pretty cool. I love coded messages. But wouldn't Old Testament "smiting" quotes have been more apt? :confused:
 
Full story here.

Well, I think it's pretty cool. I love coded messages. But wouldn't Old Testament "smiting" quotes have been more apt? :confused:

I'd be more likely to expect 'smiting' verses from an ammunition manufacturer. Trijicon makes optics so light seems to be the more logical reference.
 
It is all a vast conspiracy!

Oh but oddly funny to. Kind of like the saying in Viet Nam, "Sorry about that," for things like a 750 lb bomb blowing most everything that a village had accumulated in ten years or more to smithereens. Ironic?
 
KInd of reminds me when the Pentagon was debating the names for the latest version of ICBM. Some wag wanted to call it the Hallmark---for when you care to send the very best! :D
 
Next Pat Robertson will be selling "Holy Bullets", "Every one blessed in the crusade of Christ!"
 
The light of Jesus allows you to see and kill thine enemy? Who needs to forgive him when you can take him out with a high powered (and holy) rifle. :cool:

I love the quote ascribed to Norman Schwartzkopf: "It is not our place to judge; that's God's job. We merely endeavour for them to meet."
 
Now that the 'secret's' out, I suppose all GI's are gonna hafta' line up with sights in hand while a PFC sands off each offending engraving. We certainly can't have the enemy think poorly of us or be offended. ;)
 
Now that the 'secret's' out, I suppose all GI's are gonna hafta' line up with sights in hand while a PFC sands off each offending engraving. We certainly can't have the enemy think poorly of us or be offended.
It's not the "enemy" we need to worry about. It's how our "friends" see us that we need to worry about. As we were foolish enough to get in a fight in a country of religious fanatics, we have to be careful not to offend. Putting it another way, if you don't want your friends siding with your enemies, you can't make them feel like you're the first wave in a crusade replace their religion with yours and wipe their faith off the face of the earth. The code on the rifles is ammunition to those clerics who will point to it and say, "You can't trust those people! They're not fighting for you, but for their faith. Be on our side instead!"

Think about how fundie Christians here would be all offended and demanding that the code be rubbed off those were quotes form the Koran. Funny, huh? Fundie belief that certain words have supernatural powers put that code on the guns, and that same belief, on the other side, could lose us a lot of good will. Or not. We'll see. Is it silly? Of course it is. But that's what you get when you get involved with fundies--here or there.
 
It's not the "enemy" we need to worry about. It's how our "friends" see us that we need to worry about. As we were foolish enough to get in a fight in a country of religious fanatics, we have to be careful not to offend. Putting it another way, if you don't want your friends siding with your enemies, you can't make them feel like you're the first wave in a crusade replace their religion with yours and wipe their faith off the face of the earth. The code on the rifles is ammunition to those clerics who will point to it and say, "You can't trust those people! They're not fighting for you, but for their faith. Be on our side instead!"

Think about how fundie Christians here would be all offended and demanding that the code be rubbed off those were quotes form the Koran. Funny, huh? Fundie belief that certain words have supernatural powers put that code on the guns, and that same belief, on the other side, could lose us a lot of good will. Or not. We'll see. Is it silly? Of course it is. But that's what you get when you get involved with fundies--here or there.


Then there's that inscription over the doorway in Langley, VA . . .
 
Now that the 'secret's' out, I suppose all GI's are gonna hafta' line up with sights in hand while a PFC sands off each offending engraving. We certainly can't have the enemy think poorly of us or be offended. ;)
Actually, in this instance, I think pretty poorly of us. :mad:
I hope the military makes this stupid company replace all their non-spec equipment.
 
All I knows is som of de peoples on dis hyear thread gots a heap mo problems den you kin fine in de Ole Tessament.
 
Trijicon is now offering 'kits' to remove the 'offending' bible verse references. I wonder how many will actually be used?
 
Is the whole country atheistic or just PC?

PC to the max. You wouldn't believe the stores I've heard--from them! However, the hunting is spectacular! Fishing is world class, too. And the diving. I've even heard that so many men are out of the country working that an unattached male in a bar is considered fresh meat. That info is dated, however, and may not be the case any longer. :rolleyes:
 
PC to the max. You wouldn't believe the stores I've heard--from them! However, the hunting is spectacular! Fishing is world class, too. And the diving. I've even heard that so many men are out of the country working that an unattached male in a bar is considered fresh meat. That info is dated, however, and may not be the case any longer. :rolleyes:

And why is that, O Bear of Large Brain?
 
And why is that, O Bear of Large Brain?

At the time I was told this story, NZ was in a bad recession and the only work was "otherwhere". I don't know how things are there, now, but with the nanny-state government (run by a nanny!) they have it wouldn't surprise me if there was still a certain amount of that going on.
 
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