Some U.S. Military Weapons Have Biblical Code On Them

By Mark Lorenz on January 18th, 2010

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Those are two phrases that make me uneasy, joined together. Military weapons and biblical code.Weirdly, they are not only joined together in headlines, but in real life.

ABC News has used their investigative team to crack the code of Michigan company branding their high-powered rifle sites with code that refers to Bible verses. I’d hate to be the  reporter that got assigned to that. “Alright, you get China, you get celebrity news, and Bobby, you’re going to spend three months looking at the barrels of high-powered rifles to see if there’s a message from Jesus on them.”

The firm, Trijicon, has a 660 million dollar contract to make up to 800,000 sights for the Marine Corps. The code on the rifles reads something like 2COR4:6, referring to a verse in Corinthians, or the book of John, or the book of Stone Cold Steve Austin, if you’ve got a discount rifle. Fortunately, the US military doesn’t alloy for any proselytizing of any religion, so they’re reviewing what to do with their contracts. But it’s ridiculously inappropriate that a soldier could use a high-powered sight, branded with a code referring to a bible verse, to kill people.

Also, according to Michael Weinstein, from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation…

It allows the Mujahedeen, the Taliban, al Qaeda and the insurrectionists and jihadists to claim they’re being shot by Jesus rifles.

I now have a new gravestone. It will read, “Shot by Jesus rifles.”

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