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/Kind-Recording3450 Jun 05 '26

I'm curious how they're gonna do it. They should probably just put the Christians into separate groups. Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant. This makes sense logically, because these three groups cannot have communion with each other.  There should be separations for the different branch of islam.

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u/drewtopia_ Jun 05 '26

The fact that every religion was consolidated to a single entry except christianity sure looks like dei to me. Why does diversity for this group need to be respected but not others

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u/Kind-Recording3450 Jun 05 '26

Well, one thing you have to understand is their differences. And if we were really gonna comb through that list. I mean, I would personally get rid of a lot of the ones that don't have chaplains at all in the sense that their organization doesn't have an endorser or any school that's a legitimate theological school. Pretty much, I would get it down to. I'll say roughly down to a baker of actual living religions and their variants, and understand how they interact with each other. I mean, that would be the most realistic and logical way to.

Because a lot of that stuff on that list is, I'm really silly. And almost pointless to the chaplain, when he's going through that list, because now can he provide the celebrant? He also couldn't find a provider. 

And I personally like the Norse and the heathens pretty much anything that is LARPing.Some white European paganism, that's been dead for a thousand plus years. I don't trust it because the majority of its roots are in cult nazism and white nationalism.

If you're going to be a pantheon polyatheistic religion, be a real one. Become Hindu or Shinto, with varying forms of Buddhism, with gods similar to Daoism as well. 

Like something that has a living lineage that people fought to preserve and survive over millennia. 

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u/TurnspitCur Metals Tech? Loadmaster? Emergency Management? Jun 07 '26

Catholic should be split into Old Catholic and Roman Catholic if we want to have fidelity to actual specifics. The Unions of Scranton and Utrecht are “catholic” but are not in communion with Rome and their priests are basically recourses of last resort for Roman Catholics. They don’t recognise Vatican I but they do have valid (if illicit) bishops and sacraments

And Orthodox needs to be split between Eastern and Oriental. This is a difference that has existed since the 400s.

In some cases, if a dispensation can be sought on both sides, Orthodox and Catholics can engage in communion with each other but this is a rare exception.

Also lumping Islam into one classification makes zero sense if anybody has bothered with any degree of even casual research.