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Jesse James | January 19, 2010 | 0 Comments

The latest story making the rounds of the liberal press is the news that Trijicon, a civilian manufacturer of optical sights based in Wixom, Michigan, have for sometime imprinted Bible reference codes at the ends of their device serial numbers. In the above photograph you should be able to make out JN8:12 at the end of a longer number. That would signify John chapter 8 verse 12 to any alert Christian.

“When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8:12

Other verses that have been reported imprinted on the Trijicon sights include the following:

2PE1:19; “And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in you hearts.” 2nd Peter 1:19

2COR4:6; “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of the darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give the light of knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” 2nd Corinthians 4:6

Note that all of these Biblical quotations speak about “the light” which is pretty clever considering that Trijicon produces both thermal and light enhancing optical sights that increase target acquisition and hit probability in low light conditions.

The story first broke in the mains stream press at ABC news in a on line article dated January 18, 2010, “U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes“. The original story showed up first at a blog dedicated to shooting, Accurate Shooter, in a short blurb with photos entitled, “Trijicon’s Subtle Christian Messages“. Who say liberals don’t enjoy shooting sports? Whoever let the cat out of the bag must have been a follower of Accurate Shooter. Most good Christian’s, who would have been the ones most likely to spot the inscribed Bible passages, would probably have felt fortunate to have the word of God imprinted on their sight and have clearly kept this knowledge pretty quiet or it would have come out years ago. (Accurate shooter is a pretty good shooting blog by the way and I am glad to find it.) Anyway this whole encoded bible message thing begs the question is it a good thing or a bad thing to have your weapon’s optical sight sanctified with references to Biblical quotations?

I myself consider myself something of a militant Christian and would personally be comforted to have a sight with one of these Bible codes inscribed on it. Other Christians, atheist, and believers of other religions would probably be horrified that a weapon of war is marked such. This of course is an echo of the culture war, which by the way the Christians pretty much lost in America decades ago, as to the very nature of our United States. President Obama has certainly let everyone know in no uncertain terms that the USA is no longer a Christian Euro-centric nation. Thanks to the 1965 Immigration Act and our governments complete refusal to enforce our borders we will never be a majority white Christian nation ever again.

One thing I can tell you with certainty, regardless of my personal feelings, is that it is a very bad thing for the US military to have allowed these hidden Bible citations to be inscribed on any of their equipment. Like it or not the United States is riding a tiger trying to maintain order across the planet. Our military men and women are stationed in over 130 countries and only a few dozen of these countries are majority Christian. Our Islamic enemies already recruit foot soldiers and appeal to popular opinion by portraying the US involvement in the Middle East as a Christian Crusade against all Muslims. The knowledge now that the sights our Marines use to make kill shots to the heads of our Muslim opponents at ranges of 300 meters and better will certainly be used by our enemies to further inflame the populations of the countries we are occupying against us. This latest revelation will without a doubt cause the deaths and injuries of more of our troops.

Also it must be taken into consideration that we are probably equipping some of our Muslim allies with these sights which is an incredibly stupid thing to do. The spark that set off the great Indian Mutiny of 1857 that caused the deaths of thousands of British colonialist and their allies was the issuance of greased cartridges that the Indian troopers had to bite the ends off of to allow the gunpowder and bullet in the paper cartridge to be loaded in their guns. As with any colonial enterprise there were many other issues behind the greater mutiny but the enemies of the British colonial regime were quick to see the propaganda value of the greased cartridges.

The enemies of the British told the Muslim soldiers that the paper cartridges were greased with lard made of pig fat. The Hindus soldiers were told that the cartridges were greased with tallow or beef fat. Early incidents were reportedly started by unidentified Indian laborers who were taunting soldiers that by biting the cartridges they were losing their caste and defiling themselves. These “laborers” were probably “agents provocateur” of the conspirators who were attempting to ignite a rebellion.

The British claimed at first that the cartridges were greased with vegetable oil and later tried to issue ungreased cartridges with the instructions that the Indian soldiers could grease them with whatever substance they found suitable. Their very willingness to change to ungreased cartridges seemed to the Sepoys to be confirmation that their fears of “polluted” cartridges were true. The government’s reaction was too little too late and soon they found that the very colonial troops on whom they depended to enforce their rule over the Indian sub-continent were in armed revolt against them. Ironically the new cartridges for a newly issued rifle, the Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle, made locally at the Dum Dum arsenal near Calcutta had not even been issued yet.

How prevalent are these sights? Currently Trijicon’s largest single contract with the U.S. military is a $660 million dollar contract with the US Marine Corps to produce 800,000 optical sights. Trijicon also has some smaller contracts to produce thermal sights for Navy weapons systems. How many there are actually out there is almost immaterial as at this point much of the damage has already been done. Even the rumor if it were completely untrue would be enough to give the Islamists new ammunition to use to stir up hatred, dissent and violence against our military forces. Trijicon was dishonest to mark these Bible citations at the ends of their device identification numbers and their contract with the military should be canceled and they should also be fined.

One of the first general orders to all of our military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan is that there is to be absolutely no proselytizing of any religion. This unnecessary news event will spread rapidly across the world and will make what is already a hard job harder. Trijicon makes excellent optical sights that are a tactical asset to our troops who are lucky enough to be supplied with them but their decision to mark these pieces of equipment with hidden Bible citations is inexcusably stupid. Counter-insurgency 101 FAIL.