As of last week…according to a Department of War memo…Pistol Pete Hegseth forces Trump’s Department of War to not recognize that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as Christian.
Odd, the LDS church actually has the name of Jesus Christ in their church’s name, and the church, and its members, profess all the time their belief in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
Anyone else find this odd coming from Hegseth and Trump?
Here’s the part of the list that matters…
- Christian – Assemblies of God (AG)
- Christian – Baptist (BA)
- Christian – Brethren (BR)
- Christian – Catholic (CA)
- Christian – Church of Christ (CC)
- Christian – Church of God (CG)
- Christian – Church of the Nazarene (CN)
- Christian – Episcopal/Anglican (EA)
- Christian – Evangelical (EV)
- Christian – Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW)
- Christian – Lutheran (LU)
- Christian – Methodist (ME)
- Christian – Non-Denominational (ND)
- Christian – Orthodox (OX)
- Christian – Other (CO)
- Christian – Pentecostal (PE)
- Christian – Presbyterian (PR)
- Christian – Quaker (QU)
- Christian – Reformed (RE)
- Christian – Scientist (SC)
- Christian – Seventh Day Adventist (SA)
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (CJ)
I find this a bit disturbing…maybe more than just a bit. But coming from those two…I find this oddly consistent with their very strange religious beliefs.
So I wonder what else they believe that isn’t true…religious or not? Maybe the bigger question…why are they even involved in this at all? Wait, maybe the most important question…Where do they go with this next?
Sooner or later folks will connect all of these thousands of dots. Pretty plain and clear to see…at least for me.
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A couple of points. Your list actually showed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the bottom so it didn’t make sense to me.
The bigger point–from my scant understanding– of the issue was that Chaplains had to become familiar with 200+ religious denominations/off-shoots to perform their duties which became overwhelming. The objective to narrow their training/familiarization to a smaller lists of churches to become more effective seemed reasonable to me.
Once the functionaries making up the list are made to realize some of the points you listed about the church and how many LDS men serve as Chaplains I’m confident the LDS church will make the cut.
Whether Yosimite Sam Hegseth was secretly “gunning” for the LDS church remains to be seen.
Thank you for replying, valid points…let me clarify a bit…
The list I showed was cut from the larger list that the DOW produced. It was a “screenshot”. The “list” shows all the other religions are listed as “Christian -” but not the LDS church. Hence, Trump/Hegseth don’t see the the LDS church as “Christian”.
You are correct about the “bigger point” to some degree. But the detail of the LDS church not being considered Christian (or labeled as Christian) is the single major point…IMO…because it does show what they feel about the LDS church…it not being considered Christian. And to me…well, that tells me a lot more about those two.
As far as “The objective to narrow their training/familiarization to a smaller lists of churches to become more effective seemed reasonable to me.” Well, “effective” in what? You might be right, but was it broken before? And doesn’t the DoW have more to worry about than religious efficiency?