Marc

I don't have a problem with gun manufacturers putting bible verses on rifle sights, as long as they inform consumers ahead of time. The U.S. government, since it is supposed to be secular, should refrain from buying these sights. The company can then either kiss their profits good-bye, or start manufacturing sights without bible verses on them for sale to the U.S. government.

I do have a problem, however, with the hypocrisy of using Jesus' words (ie, the Prince of Peace) on tools who's sole purpose is murder.

2/9/2010 8:43:10 AM

Mister Spak

The holyest crusaders use Trijicon® rifles

2/9/2010 8:49:04 AM

Anon-e-moose

New Zealand has now banned those sights, especially for their own armed forces' armaments. No doubt others will follow their example.

Can you say 'P.R. disaster', Trijicon?

Unless you're prepared to 'turn your swords into ploughshares', and obey the 6th Commandment, I suggest you remove all references to religion from not just your products, but your company as a whole.

You cannot worship God and Mammon both after all. Now what's it to be, profits or God, profits or God...?

2/9/2010 9:17:20 AM

Zeus Almighty

Within the first year of the war, news of atrocities by U.S. forces, the torching of villages, the killing of prisoners began to appear in American newspapers. Soldiers, in their letters home, wrote about extreme violence against Filipinos, alongside complaints about the weather, the food, and their officers; and some of these letters were published in home-town newspapers. A letter by A. F. Miller, of the 32nd Volunteer Infantry Regiment, published in the Omaha World-Herald in May, 1900, told of how Miller's unit uncovered hidden weapons by subjecting a prisoner to what he and others called the "water cure." "Now, this is the way we give them the water cure," he explained. "Lay them on their backs, a man standing on each hand and each foot, then put a round stick in the mouth and pour a pail of water in the mouth and nose, and if they don't give up pour in another pail. They swell up like toads. I'll tell you it is a terrible torture."

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/02/25/080225fa_fact_kramer

These actions were taken against an ally who helped the U.S. fight the Spanish and then elected a democratic government, which America then wiped out.
That Bible must be one fucked up book.

2/9/2010 11:27:03 AM

"What the hell happened to the melting-pot? "
It melted.

2/11/2010 1:11:55 PM