c/atheism · by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online · 63d

DOD Officially Drops 180 Faiths From Military's Recognized Religion List

https://www.military.com/dod-officially-drops-180-faiths-from-militarys-recognized-religion-list

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31 Comments

NateNate60@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 63d (7 replies)

They should drop all of them, because Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 63d (3 replies)

Hot take: The "no prohibiting the free exercise of religion" rule should be updated to "religion should be practiced free as long as it does not seek to subvert democratic institutions, or infringe other people's human rights". Anything else will lead to the slow and painful death of secularism.

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 62d (2 replies)

Yeah, we need to crack down on religion because they're oppressing people who want nothing to do with them

blargh513@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 62d (1 reply)

Start a church. They're tax exempt. In fact, I don't even think that the IRS is permitted to audit them.

It's on my to-do list. Beyond being tax free, you can go out and solicit donations, you can fundraise in a variety of ways, I'll bet you could get "clergy" passes for parking or any number of conveniences.

snowdrop@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 62d

No need to start one just get ordained by the ULC!

https://www.ulc.org/about

Th4tGuyII@fedia.io · 14 pts · 63d

Exactly. Either all known religions have to be part of this list, or none of them.

jasoman@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 62d

Lol that is not how corruption works.

ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 1 pts · 61d

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

You mean that piece of paper Trump wipes his ample ass with?
Sorry, there's a long brown stain covering that amendment now.

BillyClark@piefed.social · 32 pts · 63d (10 replies)

This restructuring of faith codes, which help identity service members as well as the military in planning for appropriated religious coverage to include them, has now excluded minority faith/worldview groups including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick, New Age churches, Pagan, Rosicrucianism, Shaman, Spiritualists, Troth, Unitarian Universalists and various Wiccans.

Coldcell@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 63d

Athiests

Minority groups

uh huh

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 63d (5 replies)

lol how are you going to exclude atheists.

Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 63d

Lmfao very big "you're not quitting, you're fired" energy

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 62d (3 replies)

They did leave "No Religion" as an option, I think that still applies.

BillyClark@piefed.social · 4 pts · 62d (2 replies)

Looking at that list, there are many that I'm not familiar with, but Wicca is definitely a religion, isn't it? Maybe they left "Wicca" in the list and removed specific types of Wicca? It's not completely clear, but anyways, if they completely removed Wicca, then a Wiccan wouldn't have a way to answer.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 62d

They'd have to be "Other Religions"

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 62d

There's also "other religion" as an option.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 62d (1 reply)