I was relieved to learn that the US military is to stop displaying Bibilical references on its hardware (apparently, coded citations of New Testament verses were being added alongside the serial numbers of image-intensifier rifle sights - a personal quirk of the Jesus-lovin' Michigan manufacturer which the Pentagon was supposedly unaware of until recently).
However, in noodling around just now on Strange Cosmos (a rather haphazardly laid-out and hard-to-search group of interrelated websites, but rather fun: full of weird news and pictures), I found this. It looks as though the manufacturers of this mortar may be another Bible Belt proselytizer. General Petraeus is going to be a busy man, sorting all this stuff out.
While flicking through some of the stories and commentary on the Bible-bashin' nightsights story, I came upon this piece on the Huffington Post by Chris Rodda, a member of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (even some Christians are concerned about the prevalence of Christian zealotry in the US military). Her HP article from last September, Top Ten Ways to Convince the Muslims We're On A Crusade, is also well worth a look.
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