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Currently Playing: The Pentagon Decided Mormons Aren't Christian

The Pentagon trimmed its list of military chaplaincy religions from 200-plus down to 31, and in the process quietly dropped the "Christian" label that had grouped Catholics, Methodists, and others — leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints standing alone and Senators Mike Lee and Chris Stewart furious. This episode we dig into the fallout, but the more interesting question is the one underneath it: who actually has the authority to decide who counts as a Christian? Spoiler — nobody does, and the answer the New Testament does offer is a lot simpler (and a lot harder) than the people fighting about it on X would like it to be. ___________________________________________________________ Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma Listen to the podcast on every app: https://pod.link/1681418502 Follow us: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod Threads — https://www.threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So: https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466/ ___________________________________________________________ Chapters: 0:00 — Welcome 0:17 — More Mike Lee Content 1:10 — How the Pentagon List Shrank 3:32 — Dropping the "Christian" Label 4:58 — Doug Wilson's Influence 5:37 — The X Debate 6:29 — Trinity and Deification 8:28 — Who Got Left Off 9:38 — Nobody Owns Christianity 11:14 — The New Testament's Silence 13:05 — Just a Social Club 15:27 — It Costs You Nothing 17:31 — Why LDS Should Care 20:47 — A Cup of Water 21:41 — The Official Definition 22:44 — Outro ___________________________________________________________ #DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #MikeLee #LatterDaySaints #PeteHegseth