Bible Saved Soldier’s Life in Iraq

1. CheeseDuck
   August 26th, 2007 at 11:49 am

   Holy!

2. ::mwah::
   August 26th, 2007 at 11:57 am

   What about Mormon soldiers and their magical underwear - did they stop any bullets?

3. Anthony
   August 26th, 2007 at 12:22 pm

   First off, that iPod didn’t save anyone’s life. The bullet didn’t even penetrate the soldier’s armor.

   Second, this seems very fishy. Wearing anything under your body armor is uncomfortable, especially something with sharp corners. That bible is thick enough that I wonder if he could have been wearing his armor correctly. Also, if the article is correct, all the bible did was catch the bullet as it came out of his body. Just like the iPod, it didn’t do anything except make the story newsworthy.

4. WhiteBird
   August 26th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

   Stops bullets and thinking minds!

5. Dan
   August 26th, 2007 at 1:34 pm

   From TFA “”(The Bible) definitely prevented more serious injury, because if it wouldn’t have been there, it would have ricocheted off my bullet-proof plate and more than likely would have gone back into my chest, causing more damage,” Schweigart said.”

   But he also thought prayers helped him. So there ya go.

6. James
   August 26th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

   Yeah, prayers surely work. Well, you still get hit (prayer doesn’t seem to be able to influence that) but then miraculously, on the the bullet is IN the body then prayers can work all their magic!

   Hallelujah!

7. James
   August 26th, 2007 at 1:45 pm

   corr: once the bullet is

8. Chris
   August 26th, 2007 at 2:18 pm

   believer ot not, it was not his day. good for him.

9. Vonskippy
   August 26th, 2007 at 2:30 pm

   Show me the statistics on the number of bible carrying soldiers that were shot and died. Then if that number is ZERO, I’ll be impressed. Until then, it’s nothing more impressive then a mere statistical anomaly (ya know, the old hundred monkeys/Shakespeare thingy).

10. XuYu
    August 26th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    Why do soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap Bibles and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles?

11. artbot
    August 26th, 2007 at 3:32 pm

    At least a bible was finally good for *something*

12. Carl Huber
    August 26th, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    Whee a curious story opens the floodgates of bigotry!

13. L
    August 26th, 2007 at 9:07 pm

    The last Harry Potter doorstop probably would have done the same thing…

14. Alan
    August 26th, 2007 at 11:36 pm

    One of my grandfathers was a Paratrooper in WW2. One of his friends kept a bullet with his name written on it on the belief that if he possessed said bullet, no body could fire it at him. While searching a house, a large, heavy Bible with re-enforced steel corners fell off a shelf and hit the percussion cap of the bullet causing it to go off and kill him. If you believe that, then you’ll believe this Bible story.

15. Lasse
    August 27th, 2007 at 1:09 pm

    The bullit probably erased the “Thou shall not kill”-passage in the bible? Appearently the owner didn’t have see any conflict in that sentence and being a soldier.

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