{"id":83444,"date":"2026-06-08T08:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83444"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:37:33","slug":"defense-department-decision-reignites-the-mormon-christian-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/defense-department-decision-reignites-the-mormon-christian-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Department Decision Reignites The Mormon-Christian Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>PNW<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prophecynewswatch.com\/images\/recent\/mormon1.jpg\" alt=\"News Image\" width=\"308\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A controversy has erupted following recent changes by the U.S. Department of Defense to its religious affiliation system. The Pentagon reduced its list of recognized religious designations from more than 200 categories to just 31, arguing that the move would simplify chaplain support and make it easier to meet the spiritual needs of service members.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">+<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The changes have generated criticism from a variety of religious groups, but one decision has drawn particular attention: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was not grouped under the military&#8217;s broad Christian category in the same way many traditional Christian denominations were. Below are ten major doctrinal differences that explain why most Christian denominations do not regard Mormonism as part of historic Christianity&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From PNW: A controversy has erupted following recent changes by the U.S. Department of Defense to its religious affiliation system..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83447,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83444\/revisions\/83447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}