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Lex Anteinternet: Sunday Morning Scene. Religion in the military.: The Department of Defense scaled back its list of recognized religions. There were 211, now there are 31. Here is the full list: Agnostic...
And a happy ending, or at least an ending, occurred to this story when the Pentagon redid its classifications to read as follows:
One of the major newspapers ran statistics for the various religions in terms of the what percentage of the military is comprised of them. While there are Mormons in the military, the percentage is infanticidally small. As noted earlier, however, there would be units in the military that would be heavily made up of Mormons, principally Guard and Reserve units in Utah. Their spiritual needs would be different than those of Christian religions, however, which would gain importance in a large scale war.
According to exit polls form the last general election, 64% of Mormons voted for Trump in the last election. 20% voted for Harris. 56% of Catholics did, with 41% voting for Harris. Catholics are a much larger demographic than Mormons and Trump has interestingly shown little concern about enormously offending them. 68% of Southern Baptists, the largest Protestant religion in the country, went for Trump. Southern Baptist, I suspect, are probably the largest Christian denomination to be upset by the reclassification, if they are.
I don't know that I have a strong opinion on the list being reworked to address Mormon concerns, but I would note a couple of oddities about it. One is that that the U.S. Government didn't define them as Christian, although they seem happy with the result. The second is that what Trump may say aside, he doesn't love Mormons anymore than he loves anyone else.
This is completely sick.
Or evil.
On the sick item, a recent video shows Donald Trump getting off of Marine Corps 1 (which frankly shouldn't be a thing) and veering all over as he walks.
FTD is notoriously hard to diagnose while a person is alive. It's slow moving as a rule and the person afflicted with it often just seems weird and mean before it's really advanced. It's horrific to watch up close. Pneumonia ends up being what kills most people with FTD.
A person with the affliction shows these signs.
Socially inappropriate, impulsive, or repetitive behaviors
Loss of interest in normal daily activities
Emotional withdrawal from others
Trouble planning and organizing
This is what Trump appears to have.
It if isn't this, then he's otherwise severely mentally ill, or actually seeking to sabotage the country for some reason, with being a foreign agent the only good explanation. This would fit into that, as it would seriously impair the value of U.S. currency.
The good news, if there is any, is that this would take an act of Congress and it appears to be unlikely that smiling sycophant Bessant aside, anyone is going to be able to convince a sufficient number of Congressmen to go along with this, particularly by July 4, 2026.
May 31, 2026
The "yips"?
Anyone not supporting Trump's immediate removal now is either; 1) mentally unstable, 2) so dependent on his political largess they're willing to see the country destroyed, or 3) a rank cowards.
In an event, history will judge ever single one you bastards as worthless pieces of trash who hurt their country.
June 6, 2026
June 8, 2026
In spite of myself, I listed to the Meet the Press interview of Donny.
True to form, he got frustrated when the reporter wouldn't accept his obvious lies, had a tantrum, and walked out.
This demented toddler is who you are worshipping, Chuck Gray and John Barrasso.
June 9, 2026
A demented King Donny, acknowledging that he acted like a spoiled baby, blamed his performance on Meet the Press on the rain.
Yes, that's right, he went into an unhinged tirade due to, he says, rain.
On other Trump news, albeit not quite in this category,. the "let them eat cake" attitude of King Donny was evident when he attended a basketball game at Madison Square Gardens with his granddaughter. His presence proved to be a massive disruption to the area and actually had a negative impact on local taverns in the area which would normally be full after a championship game. Trump claimed there were more cheers than boos.
On today's entries, the former shows his growing insanity, but the latter merely his rudeness. He left the game early. He appeared to fall asleep during it.
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The Kingdom of Afghanistan came into existence when Emir Amanullah Khan Barakzai of the British protectorate of Afghanistan declared the independence with British approval and himself king.
The Battle of Prairie Dog Creek, also known as the Skirmish at Tongue River Heights, or the Battle of the Tongue River, occurred at the confluence of Prairie Dog Creek and the Tongue River primarily in Wyoming Territory, but also in part of Montana.
Crooks command was camped on the creek when it was attacked by a large party of Sioux, which engage them with volley fire. Crook had his men mount an attack in response, which pushed the Sioux back three times before they disengaged. Two Sioux warriors were killed in the battle.
The Sioux goal had been to steal the Army remuda.
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Lex Anteinternet: Sunday Morning Scene. Religion in the military.: The Department of Defense scaled back its list of recognized religions. There were 211, now there are 31. Here is the full list: Agnostic...
The big flap over the Pentagon's new list of religions, mostly focused on the LDS insisting it be recognized as a Christian religions which at least conventional Christianity holds that it is not, is obscuring the fact that frankly the list may not matter all that much.
All the list does is to provide some guidelines on anticipating the patrol needs of troops. T/he prior list was so large there was no way that it was useful. The original list, Protestant, Catholic and Hebrew, was probably too narrow, in the modern world, to be useful.
Arguably the current list is too big. It'd make more sense, actually, to have Mainline Protestant, Evangelical Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Judaism, Islam and Other. Every one of those categories, it might be noted, has various groups within it. Probably only Catholic expresses a singular religious group, but even there, there are a lot of Catholic rites. The Orthodox are a collection of Orthodox churches and have a major division between Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox.
Anyhow, that's probably more useful.
Of note, listing religions isn't an endorsement of them.
About 70% of all service members are some sort of Protestant. 20% are Catholic. I've given the figures already, but the number of LDS troops is very small, although in National Guard units from Utah the opposite would be true. At least one religion on the list discourages its members from joining the military and last had any presence in the military when there was conscription in place.
Lex Anteinternet: Sunday Morning Scene. Religion in the military.: The Department of Defense scaled back its list of recognized religions. There were 211, now there are 31. Here is the full list: Agnostic...
Under new military guidance from Pete Hegseth, the LDS Church is officially classified as a non-Christian religion. My fellow Saints, you can love these Christian nationalists all you want, but they will not love you back.
I’m a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints My church membership is inextricably intertwined with my Christianity, as it is for 17 million other Latter-day Saints Regardless of what the Pentagon thinks
I just got off the phone with President Trump We discussed the Pentagon’s “Christian list” I won’t speak for him, but I’m thrilled about where this is heading We’re most fortunate that President Trump (1) loves Latter-day Saints, and (2) is our commander in chief Stay tuned
