Yeah, it’s all the worst evangelical tendencies (“I bet God is happy he finally has us, here at 3rd avenue primitive KJV-only fundamental second baptist church, since everyone else is so wrong!”) amplified by all the worst right-wing tendencies (but then, maybe I repeat myself).

Even “Christian” here requires an asterisk, as preaching most of what Jesus said will get you labelled “woke” and targeted as a “librul”.

Source: am a somewhat-progressive Christian who was at a hard-right church (trying to be the voice of reason) for way too long.

Yeah, I dunno why this is the DoD’s job to hash out, I’m with you there. That part is the Christian Nationalism nasty bullying around.

I get you need chaplains, but IMO just use the official endonyms of each group without trying to categorize or subcategorize, and call it a day and let the chaplains match themselves up.

If I were a Catholic in the military and I got an LDS chaplain (or vice versa) for my religious rites, I’d be upset. So just treat all the little groups as their own little things if you must change something.

Mormons are absolutely not Nicene Christians, but they profess to follow Jesus of Nazareth,

Is a bit like

Naturopaths are absolutely not germ-theory doctors, but they profess to practice wellness and healing,

as a way to shoehorn Brenda with the essential oils into the category of “doctor”. At the point where you’ve denied one of the few definitional traits of the category, you have to admit you don’t fit into it anymore, you can’t just pretend the definition doesn’t actually exist. It’s like being a lawyer who doesn’t deal with legal matters, but they have a bunch of ideas their college roommate came up with about how to run a country while he was high before dropping out of the first semester of law school.