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.

  • DougPiranha42
    126·
    4 days ago

    Like every religion. How is LDS somehow worse than your regular “satan told me” or “I am going to heaven” christian nonsense? It’s a completely arbitrary distinction. If those folks consider themselves christians, or followers of Christ, who is entitled to deny their identity as such?

    • mufasio@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      Like every religion. How is LDS somehow worse than your regular “satan told me” or “I am going to heaven” christian nonsense?

      It’s not, they are all equally ridiculous, some more so.

      It’s a completely arbitrary distinction.

      Sure

      If those folks consider themselves christians, or followers of Christ, who is entitled to deny their identity as such?

      Literally everyone else on the planet has that right. You could even say it is a God given right if you wish.

    • Lydon_Feen
      22·
      4 days ago

      Huh… No. Literally no.

      They took an already silly thing, which at least had the benefit of being so far removed in time it leaves space for doubt about what it claims, and then piled a bunch of complete utter nonsense on top of it.

      And worse of all, utter nonsense created by a con artist who couldn’t even keep his own story straight, like when the original “translation” of the text only he could translate (lol) was hidden from him, he just made up a completely different one because of course he did, he was a con artist.