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My sacrelige is feeble.  

Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the U.S. military by a Michigan company ... 

One of the citations on the gun sights, 2COR4:6, is an apparent reference to Second Corinthians 4:6, which reads: "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Don't get me wrong here. Flak jackets I could understand. Are army chaplains truly Constitutional? Worry about something else. Even to irreligious people, faith is something you can understand in a war. If I had to jump out of a plane, even not into combat, I'd probably cross myself.

"Light of the World" references on assault rifles are different.

The idea that Christians should wage war specifically to kill, to make the world more open for Jesus, is anathema to this country. And how many of these weapons have shot kids or the owner's friends by mistake? How pointlessly cruel is that blessing? Yet these are central beliefs of all the wrong people right now.

This sort of thing will make me an old lesbian.
 

Tom Waits - "Day After Tomorrow" video from Anti Records on Vimeo.