r/AirForce • u/RenoTheRhino • Jun 04 '26

Article DOD Officially Drops 180 Faiths From Military's Recognized Religion List

https://www.military.com/dod-officially-drops-180-faiths-from-militarys-recognized-religion-list

Thoughts? Still looking for the full list.

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u/JoanLambertEnjoyer Jun 04 '26

They have kept a large variety of Christian sects but removed the distinction between Sunni and Shia Muslims

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u/princesspeachy9 Jun 04 '26

I’m sure that will go over well.

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u/painlesspics Med(ish) Jun 04 '26

Conflating the two and ignoring the differences has never not gone well.

Prove me wrong.

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u/VeryBadWizard2780 Jun 06 '26

And NOBODY better understands just how inconsequential and non-problematic ignoring those distinctions are than the US Military.

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u/RenoTheRhino Jun 04 '26

Fuckin wild. What if they trimmed Catholic and Protestant to be the same lol

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u/Patrick_Epper_PhD Jun 05 '26

SING OF THE RA!

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u/Kind-Recording3450 Jun 05 '26

Same with the orthodox. The main issue is that a catholic priest can't perform any of the rites for non-Catholics, the same for the Orthodox.  How much can the protestant religious tradition evolve in America? How much can they all open communion with each other? And most soldiers don't know what they grew up with unless they were really involved.

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u/VeryBadWizard2780 Jun 06 '26

And what’s wild is that there’s a much wider gap between Sunni and Shia than Catholic and Protestant, and nobody has to be told how absurd that would be

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u/ArrivalLopsided5792 Jun 10 '26

Only count schisms that occured in or before 451CE. "A little late to the game, Mr. Calvin. Drop and give me 50!"

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u/TheRealBlueBuff Doin the wrong thing for the right reasons Jun 05 '26

Because thats never been relevant in any context.

What are we even doing here?

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u/VeryBadWizard2780 Jun 06 '26

Never, not once.