Mormon Senator praised Trump and Pete Hegseth. The new Pentagon policy bans Mormons from the list of recognized Christian denominations. Now he is outraged.

Here’s an idea, let’s not have a list of “recognized” religions at all.

If we don't have a list of legally recognized religions, we won't be able to rationalize pogroms against the illegal ones.

Don't you want to purge the county of Muslims? Don't you want to send all the Jews to Israel? Don't you want all those Communist Atheists rounded up? I hear a bunch of them work for the CCP.

No, lets have that list, and tax them appropriately.

There is a valid purpose. Sikhs have special requirements for grooming. Jews, Muslims, Catholics, Buddhists, and Hindus have dietary requirements. Quakers are pacifists. In general having a list of religions you're prepared to accommodate is valuable for a military

Thanks for pointing out that there's no ban on religions in the military. I've heard this blown way out of proportion a few times.

Yes, the main thing here is they're feeling a sense of Othering that they all grew up being told was a thing that happened to Mormons, but they didn't really believe it because they were loyal republicans and the majority of them live and die in the bubble of Utah and the surrounding areas, so they're a force to be reckoned with even when not the majority. Those of us who grew up Mormon (i got better!) in the Bible Belt knew that the evangelicals would never accept Mormons as fellow Christians. More understanding groups wouldn't make a thing of it, even if they have the same theological distinctions, but the Bible thumpers were always going to insist on semantic cleansing once they had their hands on the levers of power, and if the Mormons don't accept that they're only as good as Jews and Muslims, they'll get slapped down even harder by a truly Christian Nationalist regime.

I thought it was the military list of protected religious rights, meansing the Mormons would have no recourse if they were asked to do something that violated their beliefs

Since Americans famously shrank English words due to length

Christians should pay 1/3rd more taxes than Mormons

Yours, a jew

Edit: this is a joke, I am not a Jew

It’s like Mormons don’t even know their own history.

Yeah, I grew up catholic and remain shocked most Catholics don't seem to get that they're in that same boat

Which is wild, considering they're ideologically aligned. I guess the Mormons are one step too culty.

Tommy Tuberville would like a word...

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everyone with a lick of hindsight knew that eventually being a straight christian wouldnt be enough if youre black, or a white christian not enough if you're gay, or even a straight white christian man if youre not the right type of white or flavor of christian

Eventually these groups cannibalize their own.

"The one thing you taught me about human beings is this / They ain't made of nothing but water and shit / Alright?"

Old Modest Mouse pointed this out eloquently.

Utah baybee

Yes!

Well, that trumpet blowin' dude on their temples is the Angel Moroni.

Mormonism quite literally does not fit within Christian theology

I have it on good authority that it is the only religion that TRULY fits within the Christian theology, and it's all you other guys who are wrong.

They don't deny the divinity of Jesus. It's more that they have a neo-Arian view of the trinity that the godhead is one in purpose but separate in form, and Jesus is the literal son of God the father (they do NOT game out the repercussions of this in a coherent or sophisticated way, but it's what they believe). Theologically, they're sort of polytheists, but the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is an essential part of their belief system. So, it really comes down to whether you're willing to allow certain belief structures rejected by the Council of Nicaea to continue to call themselves Christian, or at least to nod politely at their self-identification, or whether you make academic theology the hill you will die on in terms of culturally significant labels adopted by ostensibly areligious bureaucracies. It sounds counter-intuitive, but there's more than one way to define a Christian.

The Mormons are absolutely reaping what they sowed by throwing in with MAGA, though, and you know the Romneys and Huntsmans are snickering somewhere with a glass of wine, which they can have because they did double-secret off-the-books Temple shit.

Mormons are essentially catholicism reboot (or 'Christian 2.0') . They have an entire extra book with all new jesus stories. An extra prophet. Plus there's blessed underwear and freemason style ceremonies. They also essentially have a pope.

Resemblance to Christianity or Catholicism is essentially academic.

A. No they dont.

B. The holy Trinity was a blunt force tool created to try and unite the Christian sects together. God and Jesus formalized at the council of Nicea, then the holy ghost added some ~70-ish years later at the Council of Constantinople.

It was bullshit from the fucking beginning.

Anyone gatekeeping Christianity on these corny little details are the fucking worst.

Unlike those shrewd religious majorities

Sure you're ______, but what kind of ______?

I wonder if the Mormans and the Evangelicals would go to war.

Watching him actually show some emotion was the funniest part. Plus, Hegseth might actually know where the quote comes from, since it was a revered Republican.

Good! fuck Mormons!

Good fuck, Mormons.

Good fuck: Mormons.

Mike Lee R-Utah

This is called a No True Scotsman Policy.

You'll need emerald spectacles to read 'em.

Americans like making new churches when the occasion fits.