Citizens' Daily Lobby

In a corporate snub to the Agape Jesus (you know, the one who urged his followers to love their neighbors as themselves),  a gunmaker holding a hefty government contract is mixing guns and religion in a uniquely ultra-Evangelical way.  Trijicon is putting Biblical references onto the high-powered rifle scopes they sell to (who else?) the US government.  The Marine Corps pays Trijicon $600 million to supply the scopes.   ABC describes the inscriptions as “secret code,” but anyone even remotely familiar with the Bible would recognize them.  For instance, one code ends with 2COR4:6 (Second Corinthians chapter 4, verse 6 :  “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of the darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”)  The company freely admits that it places the Biblical references on the weapons.  .

The inappropriateness of these references on weapons of war goes far, far beyond the separation of church and state.    Has America really descended to the level of the Crusaders, who went to war with crosses on their chests and on their swords?  Evangelical Christianity has become an ideological and theological front for those who would seek to convert non-believers by the sword.  How is this different, really, from a jihad?  The US government, in not only allowing, but actually paying for these messages, is promoting Evangelical Christianity, and opens itself up to criticism from the Arab world over its own Holy War.

I wonder if this reference shows up on any gun sights:

They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. — Isaiah 2:4 & Micah 4:3