Defense Department cut roughly 180 religion codes from previous list, with mostly Christian denominations remaining

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47886949

Mormon leaders, military veterans and elected officials reacted with anger to a new Department of Defense policy that does not consider The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be a Christian religion as part of a wider effort to cut down the U.S. military’s list of recognized faiths.

“The Pentagon’s decision to list The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apart from other Christian faiths is wrong and needs to be corrected,” Republican Rep. Mike Kennedy, of heavily Mormon Utah, wrote on X on Sunday.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    The wild thing is that they were always going to turn on the Mormons. The evangelicals fucking hate the LDS Church, and they’ve been pretty candid about that for a long time. But the Mormons so badly wanted to be in the conservative Christian gang they convinced themselves they would always be accepted.

    The evangelicals treated the Mormons like useful idiots. Now they think they have no use for them. So they’ve become just idiots.

    • worhui@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Catholics are up soon. Evangelicals will flat out try and convert them since they are not Christians.

    • HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      9 days ago

      This right here is the shit I’ve been waiting for. They’ll turn on Catholics soon enough and I’m shocked Jehovah’s Witnesses exist in the list at all since there’s literally no members allowed to do anything in the military not even non-combat. Evangelicals aren’t even a homogenous group in and of themselves, consisting of the likes of Baptists and Pentecostals who disagree strongly about… certain things.

      They all used to piss and bitch and fight each other all the time. Seems they realized they were all headed for the dustbin of history recently, but I knew it couldn’t last forever…

      • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Exactly. Catholics will be next. Then Orthodox and Coptic church members, and yeah the JWs. Oh, and the liberal Lutherans and Episcopalians too.

        And then the evangelicals will start cannibalizing each other. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them unify into a single church that worships Trump as a prophet (profit? Haha), and that group viciously takes down any other evangelicals still standing.

        Hopefully things don’t get to that point.

      • Freeposity@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 days ago

        consisting of the likes of Baptists and Pentecostals who disagree strongly about… certain things.

        My great grandmother was part of a Pentacostal church that split in half over a single bible verse. But they were both still speaking in tongue after the split.

  • Zier@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    It is wrong what whisky pete did. Mormons are exactly the same cult as all other christians.

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 days ago

    As long as they list the Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, I’m good. The Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912 will of course burn in Hades forever.

  • paper_moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Uh ohhh, the inner circle is shrinking

    The people who thought they’d be in the ‘in group’ once again find themselves in the ‘out group’ who could have possibly seen this coming?

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      If Hegsworth wasn’t drunk he could have played an Uno reverse and asked the Mormon’s who gets in their heaven.

      But them fracturing early is a huge boon to the rest of us. The Christian right has sunk a lot of time, efforts, and their daughters into converting our military officers, especially in the Air Force. Not to mention how they go after young politicians desperate for funding.

      But trump is co-opting their plans and forcing them early.

      If they had another decade or two, they’d likely have their faithful in full control of our government and military, then we wouldn’t even have noticed a coup. They’d have just denied it was happening and pretended it was coincidence.

      • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        If they had another decade or two, they’d likely have their faithful in full control of our government and military

        Zionists mutter knowingly amongst themselves in babykiller.

    • ThePyroPython@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      The inner circle is always shrinking, it’s part of the fascistic “eternal struggle” bullshit; there’s always got to be an enemy.

      • gdog05@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        I don’t know if you understand Mormon culture or not. They spent decades of lobbying and advertising to be counted as Christians in the first place. Fucking with the church holds more sway to them than anything else. The church being shunned like this means the church will have to send a message and they own all of the politicians outright.

  • fratermus@piefed.socialEnglish
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    9 days ago

    “Hey, my Invisible Sky Friend deserves to be in the Cool Invisible Sky Friend club like all the other Invisible Sky Friends!”

    • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Well, I don’t count Hegseth as a Christian, either. He is one of those who interprets “love thy next” with a very limited range of “nexts”, and they are as bigoted as he is.

    • Zier@fedia.io
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      9 days ago

      Once they eliminate each other, the rapture will be complete. mwhahahaha