The American Bible Society is celebrating its 200th anniversary, noting that among its earliest leaders were members of the Founding Fathers and that it has a nearly two-century history of providing Bibles to the US military:

The first president of the American Bible Society, Elias Boudinot, was also the first president of the Continental Congress, and its second president was John Jay, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court.

Its distribution of millions of Scriptures to American forces dates to the Mexican War of the 1840s, when Mexican civilians were also provided with Bibles. At one point two decades later, during the Civil War, ABS representatives were able to reach both sides simultaneously.

The ABS has provided Bibles in “military themes” and colors for most of those years — some of which have raised the ire of Michael “Mikey” Weinstein. Just recently, what appeared to be an ABS Bible appeared on a POW/MIA remembrance table at Tobyhanna Army Depot, leading Weinstein to call it evidence of the

scourge of undue Christian fundamentalist, theocratic-militaristic fervor [that] remains a devastatingly serious national security issue of the highest order…

Because according to Mikey Weinstein, nothing says “Christians want world domination and to kill all the Jews” like a camo-covered Bible.

Hey, Mikey. Here’s another one, from the vaunted 101st Airborne:

There are more where that came from. Good luck trying to purge God’s Word from the US military. You won’t succeed.

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