Fox on company's decison to stop inscribing Bible verses on military rifle scopes: "The Bible Loses"
January 22, 2010 8:47 am ET by Media Matters staff
From the January 22 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
From a January 21 Army Times article:
A company under fire for etching biblical references on rifle scopes used by the U.S. military said Thursday it will stop the practice, and offered to provide modification kits to the Pentagon to enable their removal on existing optics.
Michigan-based Trijicon Inc. made the announcement in a statement released by Levick Strategic Communications, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that specializes in crisis management.
"Trijicon has proudly served the U.S. military for more than two decades, and our decision to offer to voluntarily remove these references is both prudent and appropriate," Trijicon president Stephen Bindon said in a statement. "We want to thank the Department of Defense for the opportunity to work with them and will move as quickly as possible to provide the modification kits for deployment overseas."
Trijicon also said it will remove the inscriptions from all products it has made for the military, but not yet shipped, and that it will provide foreign military services that purchased Trijicon products the same options.
Hey, FOX, even the manufacturer, Trijicon, says it's appropriate to remove the Bible inscriptions.
Once again, though, FOX will attempt to perpetuate the myth that Christians are persecuted and discriminated against in this country.
Second, we also need to understand that when fighting a war against religious extremeists you don't need to give them a reason to claim that the U.S. is fighting a war against Islam.
Personally, I didn't have an issue with the reference inscribed on the scope per se. I do believe that for a piece of equipment that only has military usage that it was out of place. If they want to use it on equipment sold to civilians that is a different matter.
Considering this was a night vision scope the bible verse:
"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." is kind of appropriate, in a way.
Somehow I don't think that quote from scripture can in any way be applied to illuminating a human target for a sniper.
It's another way of saying that God is on our side. And when we choose to kill each other, he is not.
Regardless of what it says, soldiers at war always walk in darkness. The only light for them is peace.
Perfectly articulated. Kudos.
Just the fact of what this region of the world has lived through, such as the crusades, should tell us not to cross that line.
Of course, W did say he talked to god.
Or that Steve Doocy quoted his wife as saying that SINCE Al Qaeda will say Allah Akbar before fighting us that it's okay for US to do that too? Like we don't have an amendment to our Constitition that says that we should keep any religious support out of our gov't?
How about this bible verse...
"...the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these." (Mark 12:28-31)