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Can anyone tell me why The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was left out of the list of Christian churches?

Let me get this straight... Your argument is "You disagree with my creed, therefore you're not Christian." 😂 The earliest Christians didn't believe in the Nicene Creed because it didn't exist for centuries. The word "Trinity" isn't in the Bible. The Nicene formulation isn't in the Bible. Yet you're acting as though acceptance of fourth-century philosophical definitions is the test of Christianity. Latter-day Saints worship Jesus Christ, pray in His name, believe He is the divine Son of God, believe He died for sins, rose from the dead, and is the only source of salvation. Those are Christian beliefs. What you're really saying is that Christians must accept your interpretation of Christianity. That's a denominational claim, not an objective fact. And the irony is that if being Christian is determined by post-biblical creeds rather than loyalty to Christ, then you've made the creed the center of Christianity instead of Christ. You can say Latter-day Saints aren't Nicene Christians. That's fair. But pretending that belief in Jesus Christ somehow doesn't count as Christianity because it differs from your theology is just sectarian arrogance dressed up as certainty.

Can anyone tell me why The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was left out of the list of Christian churches?

Can anyone tell me why The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was left out of the list of Christian churches?

The Office of the Secretary of War is announcing a significant change to the Department’s categorization of religious affiliation. In a long overdue move, we reduced the list from over 200 unmanageable categories to 31. With this move, we are returning to the original intent of collecting this data - to allow our chaplains and religious support personnel to provide the best spiritual care to our warfighters. This decrease in religious affiliation codes is not designed to make any claims on the legitimacy of any faith or religious belief, nor is it intended to provide a list of “officially approved” religions. Rather, it is designed to allow chaplains to quickly look at the religious composition of their units and determine how they structure resources to best provide for warfighters of all faith groups. The Department of War places a high value on the First Amendment and the free exercise of religion. Chaplains play an instrumental role in providing spiritual care and facilitating the Warfighters' ability to freely exercise their religion of choice, or no religion at all. With this new change, we believe we can provide the best data to support our chaplains in that effort.