Unholy Crusade: More on those Bible Verses on our Military's Guns »

There’s more coming in surrounding the shocking story I blogged about yesterday in which ABC News revealed that our Military is being armed with rifle scopes that have Christian Bible Scripture imprinted on them. These guns are not only being used by our military in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq, but also being used to train the Iraqi and Afghan soldiers that are supposed to be our allies in these Muslim countries.

This has caused huge concerns not only because the Military specifically prohibits the proselytizing of any religion, but also because it could further enflame the idea that the US Military is on a Christian Crusade in Muslim countries.

Now the Marine Corps has announced that it will be meeting with the Michigan-based optics maker, Trijicon Inc, to discuss the verses and the multi-year deal worth up to $660 million, saying:

we are aware of the issue and concerned with how this may be perceived.

You think? Well, it seems Trijicon doesn’t really care because we are a Christian Nation and wishes all you heathens would shut up. Their response after the jump.

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