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

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.

  • The_v@lemmy.world
    611·
    2 months ago

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    39·
    2 months ago

    Guess what, self-described "good Christian"s of America, you’re going to get kicked out of the in-group as soon as it’s convenient for the MAGA Republican party.

  • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    2 months ago

    Did you know that Mormons are actually preferentially given security clearances, since the United States Constitution is one of the foundational documents of their faith? Do you realize how many people with positions near nuclear sites, NSA datacenters, and CIA operations these bumblefucks are aggravating?

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      35·
      2 months ago

      Did you know that Mormons are actually preferentially given security clearances, since the United States Constitution is one of the foundational documents of their faith?

      I didn’t know that about LDS folks. Being a founding document of their faith, they must really be in support of the Constitution and would oppose all who would desecrate the document and its principles of law and liberty.

      “According to Fox News’ 2024 election exit poll, among the Latter-day Saints surveyed 64% supported Trump and 32% supported Vice President Kamala Harris.” source

      …oh, nevermind.

    • YoureHotCupCake@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      This is because most Mormons go on missions to other countries and know a second language from doing so. Its an asset to the government to have traveled people who speak multiple languages after all especially those from a religious background who fall in line easily and are usually conservative.

      • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yep, and they don’t tend to be addicted to any substances or gambling. There are many reasons. The point being that, for one reason or another, many of the intelligence service and highest a clearance positions are filled with Mormons, and the government just told them that they aren’t part of the club anymore.

    • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      yeah we’re like three quarters of the way through that Niemöller poem now

  • shish_mish@lemmy.world
    25·
    2 months ago

    I am sure that after some suitable donations to dear leader Trump, this obvious erroneous matter will be sorted.

    • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      2 months ago

      They have more than enough money. Actually I wonder which church is the wealthiest. My money is on either Scientology or Mormonism.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    2 months ago

    I wish Mormons would be outraged over something that mattered, like the sexual abuse in their church, or the fact their church supporting mormon thieves and scammers across the country, who have stolen over a billion dollars from their fellow Americans.

    • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      While sexual abuse does occur in the church, the trick of having the church operate as it does is to catch predators. Similar to how Donald Trump is the orange cop-in-chief, because God and the FBI knows who offered him what.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4112·
      2 months ago

      I mean they literally aren’t, it’s like saying Muslims are Christian because they view Jesus as a prophet along with Muhammed.

      They made up their own fan fiction for Christianity. Someone needs to let them know their fanfic isn’t canon.

      • Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        121·
        2 months ago

        I’m ex-mormon. They firmly consider themselves christian. They believe in Christ as a savior who died for our sins, etc etc, where a lot of sects considered non-christian see him as a prophet, not a savior/divine entity. There are a lot of arguments about the trinity and if considering christ a separate being still counts, but in the simplest sense, they kinda are christian. The bar shifts depending on who you ask though.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity The section on the trinity is an interesting read.

        Though I should make it clear, I don’t believe in any god. It’s all wishful thinking to me.

        • Ashenlux@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          41·
          2 months ago

          Personally, I think the whole heavenly father and heavenly mother being Mormons from a different planet as well as the lack of belief in the Trinity thing makes mormonism fundamentally different then “old and new testament only” Christianity.

          But on the other hand, they can call themselves what ever they want, it doesn’t make their cult correct or their god real.

      • knife@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 months ago

        isn’t each abrahamic religion just a sequel to the previous one that’s been written by new authors?

        • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          Like I can accept that the bible is kind of a mess due to it being written so long ago that historical record of the whole thing is fractured, but generally, it’s accepted that a figure named Jesus probably did exist, even if he wasn’t really the son of God. Through all the translations and lost languages and lost history, mainline Christianity has a pretty good excuse that even if the stories aren’t actually true, they’re rooted in social folktales that were generally accepted as true in early Christian theology, in a time period that was much much much much more superstitious than the modern era.

          Whereas, come the fuck on, Jesus visiting America is made up whole cloth in a semi-modern era by a guy who should have known the fuck better. That’s not a social folktale, that’s just one single motherfucker making shit up on his own and calling it good.

          • knife@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 months ago

            lol, I see. you’re willing to entertain the whole zombie jesus story but the book of mormon is ridiculous and impossible.

            honestly who even cares? I’m sure this will get corrected by hegseth because the lds have been loyal and obedient to trump and the republicans in power are only pretending to be christians.

            • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              I’m not willing to entertain the zombie jesus story, I just recognize that one has actual history behind it and that early human civilization history helps explain it and that nothing explains this dumbfuck just making shit up.

  • el_muerte@lemmy.ca
    141·
    2 months ago

    I’m honestly more surprised that JWs and Christian Scientists are listed under “Christian” than that Mormons aren’t. All of those are considered cults, rather than legitimate denominations, by mainstream Christianity (Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant).

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        2 months ago

        If I recall the original definition of the modern cult vs religion division is just what ever the British crown recognized as legitimate. Lol

    • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 months ago

      Mormonism is definitely a cult, zero bones about it. But the emotional attachment–and the subsequent damage–is very very real.