Latest piece of religious madness to emerge from America (where else?) is that the US troops are training Afghan and Iraqi soldiers to shoot their fellow countrymen with high-powered rifles. No surprise there. Shooting people, after all, is America’s favourite sport.
New Testament Gun Sight
What is causing a stir are the rifle-sights, which have cryptic messages inscribed on them. In the picture, the sight reads “JN 8;12 “, which stands for John, Chapter 8, Verse 12. “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life .”
Other rifle sights carry other references to Jesus from Mathew, and even Revelation.
Trijicon, the makers, say they have been putting the biblical codes on gunsights for years. On their web-site, they say they are guided by their values, though what values a company that manufactures death-dealing equipment can have is hard to say. Beyond the dollar, of course.
The US military — every one of them honourable men and never known to lie — deny the US is engaging in a religious crusade. The Army and the Marines protest Honest Injun they didn’t know, and offered to swear an oath on their holy rifles. See this wet, see this dry…
And a shareholder in the company, Cornellius Z. Applejuice III from Texas, said “Holy shit! Them’s some dam’ fine scopes they got there, boy. Yessir, that’s whut the baby Jaysus woulda used on them Muslins. Shoot ever’ last one o’ them, Ah say. Democrats, too”
And Jesus, revered in the Qur’an as a prophet and messenger of God, said “No comment”.
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