DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List
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#2They don't recognize atheists anymore? Am I reading that right?
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#3> The changes were iterated in a May 20, 2026, memorandum issued by the Under Secretary of War and signed by Anthony Tata, under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness of the United States, and obtained by Military.com.
FFS there is no such thing as "of war". It's still "of defense" until Congress actually passes a bill.
As for the rest of that topic... yeah. Fits the expectations one has these days when thinking about "how can the US Administration screw up the lives of anyone not fitting into the world view the average Fox News audience can squish in their brains".
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#4They don't recognize atheists anymore? Am I reading that right?
No religion on the list, I suppose that counts.
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#5As long as the flying spaghetti monster is still on the list, I'm fine. First they came for the Buddhists, then they came for the Abrahamics, then the Zoroastrians, but it will be a while yet before they get to me.
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#6It's notable that the original list with the extra 180 religions was from Trump's first term, so this is another example of the doubling down on white Christian identity politics that has come to define Trump's second term.
Also one small potentially controversial decision here that I find amusing in a narcissism of small differences kind of way, Mormons aren't considered Christian according to this list.
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#7They don't recognize atheists anymore? Am I reading that right?
No religion on the list, I suppose that counts.
Ok I looked at the list. There are 31 entries, which are "no religion", "agnostic", Baha'i, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, and 22 different varities of Christian (Baptist, Catholic, etc.). Sheesh. At least they didn't get all the way to “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912".
(explanation: https://www.fpcmarion.org/2024/04/die-heretic/ )
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
No religion on the list, I suppose that counts.
Ok I looked at the list. There are 31 entries, which are "no religion", "agnostic", Baha'i, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, and 22 different varities of Christian (Baptist, Catholic, etc.). Sheesh. At least they didn't get all the way to “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912". (explanation: https://www.fpcmarion.org/2024/04/die-heretic/ )
Here's the video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNX_XiuA78
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#10They don't recognize atheists anymore? Am I reading that right?
Uh, honest question: why would you put atheist on a list of religions?
Like…leave the religion off the dog tag and that communicates enough right? What’s there to recognize?
I’m super not trying to be antagonistic. I’m trying to understand why an atheist would be upset by this.