An ABC news investigation has discovered that some US military high-powered rifles have New Testament Bible verses cited on their sights. Trijicon, a Michigan-based company, has sold the US military these sights that essentially make the shooter see a verse like "2 Cor 4:6" as they're aiming to fire the gun.
This is an enormous breach of the US military's policy of remaining religiously neutral and un-biased. Whether or not the military knew about the verses being on the sights, they are still responsible and need to correct the problem and re-state their very explicit rules about religion equality and freedom.
What makes me shudder the most is that when soldiers are preparing to shoot a gun at other humans in battle, they are ironically doing so through a lens that is obviously promoting Christ and Christianity, which are, on my view, about love, equality, justice, compassion, and healing -- not hate, killing, violence, etc.
I would love to hear other people's reactions to this issue. Please feel free to comment on New Testament verses being put on US soldiers' gun sights.
Joseph Rhee, Tahman Bradley and Brian Ross of ABC news have the story at Faith in Public Life.
yeah - weird story - agreed that it is a little disturbing to put the verses on something that's helping people kill more effectively.
ReplyDeletewas there any mention of the intent behind the people who put the verses there?
Nathan M
not that ABC reported. neither did Rev. Welton Gaddy on State of Belief mention anything about the purpose behind the sights with biblical verses...
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