Petraeus: Gunscope Inscriptions 'Disturbing'

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. General David Petraeus said on Thursday it was "disturbing" that a manufacturer had embossed biblical citations on rifle scopes sent to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the firm announced it would voluntarily halt the practice.

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Comments

[CessnaDriver]

03:40 PM on 01/23/2010

Several times on this board I have posted questions such as:

WWJPITR: Who Would Jesus Plunk in the Ten Ring?

And for some reason, no "Christian" has answered any of my questions, other than to throw some limp-wristed insults at me.

So.....anybody? Bueller? Bueller?

[nexxtep54]

03:45 PM on 01/23/2010

Probably, Pat Robertson . . . bad for the P.R.

[nexxtep54]

01:01 PM on 01/23/2010

The use of the sites had gone unnoticed ? Horsepuckies ! Each and every item commissioned and used by the military goes through rigorous and detailed quality control inspection prior to being accepted as useable equipment. The root of this sacrilege lies in whoever commissioned these scopes, whoever field tested them and whoever ordered them. This is a holy war and nothing less.

[OdinsEye]

01:27 PM on 01/23/2010

Nope. COTS items are frequently not subjected to that kind of stuff.

And if I wrote "BDCS762X51IS60:1", would you know what it is?

[LiberalLee]

12:54 PM on 01/23/2010

Maybe they should've been inscribing thou shalt not kill.
But hypocrisy has never fazed them religious nutbags out there.

[nexxtep54]

01:06 PM on 01/23/2010

Be interesting to know who Trijicon lobbies.

[OdinsEye]

01:25 PM on 01/23/2010

The actual translation of the commandment is "murder", not "kill". The Bible is filled with examples of advocated killing both before and after the commandments are received.

[CologneCitizen]

09:05 AM on 01/23/2010

This is simply sick and another sign of the religious nuttery that has infested the USA. As an American you are probably used to all kinds of weird stuff but for a foreigner this is bizarre beyond belief.

[harmonikasavingsbonds]

08:57 AM on 01/23/2010

What's "disturbing" is that you got caught.

[Lutfi]

08:28 AM on 01/23/2010

I wonder what so called conservative would say if a another religion placed verses of there religion on there weapon . please leave religion out of conflict, and stop this crusade war on Islam.

[MarcusT]

04:16 AM on 01/23/2010

Isn't our military impressive?

[OdinsEye]

12:19 PM on 01/23/2010

What did our military do?

[nexxtep54]

01:06 PM on 01/23/2010

Accepted and used them ?

[UncleJimbo]

12:05 AM on 01/23/2010

Don't American Christians just get Creepier and Creepier?

[nexxtep54]

01:07 PM on 01/23/2010

. . .always creepy, just more blatant now. Showing their hand.

[MajorKong]

08:17 PM on 01/22/2010

I suspect that the company is run by evangelicals and they probably just figured "Hey, everybody inscribes bible versus on their product, don't they?"

They're probably so deep into the evangelical culture that it never even occurred to them that there are people out there who have different beliefs.

[nexxtep54]

01:08 PM on 01/23/2010

Except when they're pushing an agenda to kill for Jesus.

[henrypapillon]

08:08 PM on 01/22/2010

Sick, disturbing , and extremely immature. Acts like this jeopardize our troops' safety.

[T Pol]

06:19 PM on 01/22/2010

I find it paradoxical and ironic that references to the Prince of Peace should be inscribed on weapons intended to kill.

[quillsinister]

07:12 PM on 01/22/2010

Maybe that's why NOBODY expected the Spanish Inquisition!

Had to say it. Shutting up now. :-)

[CessnaDriver]

07:24 PM on 01/22/2010

Our main weapon is Fear!

[rcampbell]

05:53 PM on 01/22/2010

Disturbing? How about OUTRAGEOUS!!!

[davidwayneosedach]

05:31 PM on 01/22/2010

What a self-promoter! He'll do or say anything to get in the news! He probably has visions or running for President. But he won't. After he loses the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

[CessnaDriver]

05:12 PM on 01/22/2010

WGWJS? Who's guts would Jesus splatter?

[ManUTd1989]

05:42 PM on 01/22/2010

i totally thought that was "what gun would jesus shoot"

[ebanks84]

04:28 PM on 01/22/2010

Religion today is worse than all wars because it's hypocritical to the max. Praise to your gods one day and shoot the enemies the next day all under the guise of religion. Religion shouldn't be connected to wars of any kind if you truly believe in God, who would never condone such hatefulness and who believes we should love one another and not k!ll each other. That's what religion supposedly preaches but men have added their lies to the bibles which indicate we should be at war with one another. That's why religion is of no use to humankind today with all the lies that have been espoused from holy mouths and holy books.