Man, just when I thought I’d seen it all, the fundamentalists come through with something new. Trijicon, provider of combat rifle sights to the US military, has been encoding Bible verses in the serial numbers of their product! For example, “JN8:12″ at the end of a serial number refers to John 8:12. May we recommend Exodus 20:13? Or better yet, 2 Corinthians 4:2 (“But [we] have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.”)?
Dispatches from the Culture Wars has a great example of why this story is important: http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/01/why_those_christian_gunsights.php