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.

  • fratermus@piefed.socialEnglish
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    5 days ago

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

  • BJW@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    5 days ago

    As the outcast in a large family of Mormon Trump followers, I love this news. It’s almost worth reaching out to those I cut off to ask them how happy they remain with their votes.

    • Freeposity@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Do you think they even know? Most of the Trump dipshits are in their own information bubbles and things like this generally don’t penetrate their thick skulls.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      “Mormon business owners would rather weaponize the police than return stolen goods.” Great job Utah Police for protecting criminals.

    • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      This.

      This is what the Mormons are now known for, and forever shall be. Owning the police terrorists who are the private army of the Mormon Bricks & Minifigs thieves who scammed a dying man out of his LEGOs.

  • Zier@fedia.io
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    5 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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    5 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.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 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.

    • HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      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…

      • Freeposity@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        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.

      • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 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.

    • worhui@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

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

    • Zier@fedia.io
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      5 days ago

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

    • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 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.