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.
There are some pretty specific teachings in mormianity that mainstream Christians point at to claim Mormons aren’t Christian. If you’re interested in the specifics, most if it comes from the King Follett discourse and the subsequent Adam-God doctrine, but the short version is that Mormons believe that God used to be a person like you and I, and has his own God, like a GrandGod for us, and that sufficiently good humans can become a God like him, like God Jr. Many Christians think this belief diminishes the role of God and Christ, since they aren’t particularly special, just one more link in an eternal chain.
Is bullet proof underwear Christian?
That’s not true lol
It’s baseball season.
It’s supposed to be soccer season but there’s this stupid international break on until mid-July. How’re the Mariners this year?