For a brief second I thought that our defence forces had been infiltrated by the religious right in much the same way as the American Armed forces. It turns out that a large number of gun sights used by our defence forces are inscribed with biblical citations:
THE Defence Force says Australian soldiers have been using rifle sights engraved with biblical citations and it will move quickly to deal with any ”sensitivities”.
A spokesman said the military had been unaware that the sights – made in the US by Trijicon, which was founded by a devout Christian – carried references to Bible verses. The citations appear in raised lettering at the end of the sight stock number.
No, thankfully it’s just the a company of religious nut jobs that have been supplying the US military with biblically inscribed weapons and apparel for the last 30 years.
I wonder, would they include Exod. 20:13 ?
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I heard about this and wasn't all that shocked. Hard telling what all has been put on what.
I'd expect it in America but not here – though I suppose its a bit much to expect a right wing american gun merchant to have any cultural understanding or sensitivity.
The 'funny' part about this is that the governments (Aus, NZ and the US) are removing the inscriptions because of their inappropriateness but the inappropriateness is that by having the inscriptions on the gun sights it is disrespectful to muslims. The disrespect is clearly the fact that muslims might be hurt, or worse, because the bullet doing the damage is from a christian weapon.