{"id":5679,"date":"2010-01-22T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2024-04-25T10:41:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:41:28","slug":"military-under-fire-for-biblical-gunsights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2010\/01\/22\/military-under-fire-for-biblical-gunsights\/","title":{"rendered":"Military under fire for biblical gunsights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2010\/01\/20\/pm-god-and-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More<\/a>&nbsp;related to the company&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicradio.org\/columns\/marketplace\/scratchpad\/2010\/01\/us_soldiers_carry_jesus_rifles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trying to restart the Crusades<\/a>&nbsp;and putting our soldier&#8217;s lives at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Aussies jumped in and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/remove-biblical-messages-from-gunsights-defence-minister-tells-forces\/story-e6frg8yo-1225822686018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">want the scriptures removed<\/a>, as does the Pentagon. Even the&nbsp;<em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em>&nbsp;isn&#8217;t on the side&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Military\/2010\/0122\/Trijicon-sights-How-the-Jesus-gun-misfired\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">of these Talibangelical idiots<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/jesus-rifles\/story?id=9618791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has since listened<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/01\/trijicon_will_end_bible_inscriptions_on_military_r.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">will not longer continue the practice<\/a>&nbsp;of proselytizing at the barrel of a gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frankly, their response is weak, on many levels. First, they never appreciated that what they are doing is wrong. Second, they are sending out around 100 removal kits&#8230;to fix 200,000 units shipped. Nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Third &#8211; and this tells you the REAL spirit of these so-called Christians &#8211; they chose Capitalism over Christ. Seriously, I&#8217;d have more respect for the bastards &#8211; not much, granted &#8211; if they stuck, well, to their guns (or gun sights as it were).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Either way, it is once again instructive to watch how Talibangelicals act as opposed to how they preach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More&nbsp;related to the company&nbsp;trying to restart the Crusades&nbsp;and putting our soldier&#8217;s lives at risk. The Aussies jumped in and&nbsp;want the scriptures removed, as does the Pentagon. Even the&nbsp;Christian Science Monitor&nbsp;isn&#8217;t on the side&nbsp;of these Talibangelical idiots. The company&nbsp;has since listened&nbsp;and&nbsp;will not longer continue the practice&nbsp;of proselytizing at the barrel of a gun. Frankly, their response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-intolerance-stupidity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5680,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}