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.
The only thing that changed was that the DoD official religion list (simultaneously reduced from 200 choices to 30ish) officially marks mormonism as its own separate class of religion and not part of Christianity.
Which, well when one of the central tenets of your faith is explicitly that all other religions (specifically Christian religions) are exploitive and dishonest, and that you believe all of the Christian churches’ tenets, creeds, beliefs and rites are “abominable before [their god]”. So of course Christianity is going to reject mormons and mormonism. The mormons reject the Christians anyways (except for when they are looking for new
victimsmormons) so this “we are too Christians” bullshit from Salt Lake City just reeks of the weird kid in the lunchroom begging to popular table to eat lunch together.