The Trijicon people, makers of the ACOG sights our troops use, have found themselves in trouble because they added Bible references to the serial numbers of their scopes. The references are the same size as the serial numbers; and unless you’re familiar with Bible reference abbreviations, you probably wouldn’t even notice the cryptic notation, hardly an in-your-face testimony and too obscure to be of any value for proselytizing.
Why the fuss? Good question. Some folks are irritated at anything Christian, so the reference becomes a target of their illogical and anti-freedom wrath. I’ll talk about anti-freedom more in a minute.
Some have said that when the mostly Moslem enemies we are engaging learn of this (which they have no-doubt done from the press it’s gotten), they will have proof we are engaged in a holy-war against them. These geniuses have forgotten that it is our enemies that shout “Allah Akbar” when they attack. It is these extremists whose motive is to destroy Christianity and Judaism. We fight them because they have attacked us.
From a spiritual perspective, a committed disciple of Jesus should give honor to God for his success and thanks for all blessings. The developers of the unique light-gathering ACOG added verses to their product that honored Jesus as the Light. They were doing no more than glorifying God for their ability to harness light for the aiming system in their product, a product they developed and manufactured that was useable by our military. I understand that a customer can make demands on the seller for what he needs before he buys the product. The interesting thing here is that the verses have been there for years. Someone must have gotten their feelings hurt and whined about it to someone who believes that people only whine when they are right.
In recent times these folks would have been highly regarded for glorifying Christ in their business. In today’s anti-Christian American culture, they will bow to pressure and remove the verses from sights sold to the military. Those sights are expensive; but now I’ve got to get one, one with an appropriate verse about Jesus being the Light of the world. I won’t mind at all having a Jesus rifle.
BTW, I hope none of our warfighters have access to any of Bach’s music. A committed believer, he inscribed most of his music with SDG, short for Soli Deo Gloria, which means “To God alone be Glory”. Good thing he didn’t make optics.