Anonymous #1 22h

There are 1.7 million Unitarian Universalists in the United States, including 3 members of congress. Around 5% of Americans are atheists. There are only 100,000 Christian scientists in the USA but they are still recognized, while universalist and atheists are not.

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Anonymous OP 22h

How are chaplains supposed to provide services to religions that the military doesn’t recognize? People won’t even be able to get a dog tag that says they’re an atheist. Pete Hegseth is a Christian nationalist. This isn’t a coincidence. He wants army chaplains to be a tool for Christian evangelism.

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Anonymous OP 22h

Correct me if I am wrong but aren’t Unitarians their own thing and Universalists a more broad theological philosophy which is present within various religions and subsects? Also I am fairly certain that atheist is still a category or has an applicable designation, so you might want to fact check that one

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Anonymous OP 22h

Chaplains provide their services to the best of their ability and I know they do a damn good job of it. It’s not a grand conspiracy, but there is an agenda being pushed. I agree with that much

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Anonymous #1 22h

Atheist was removed. Agnostic and no religion are still categories. Unitarian Universalist was the specific denomination that was removed. There is no recognition for the broader universalist category either.

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Anonymous OP 22h

Atheist means “One Who Doesn’t Believe in God”which is covered No Religion being a category for people of no particular religious persuasion, so that is perfectly fine. I don’t know why Unitarian Universalist is a category, I have heard of Unitarians and Universalists as separate things. And there shouldn’t be separate categories for Universalist because afaik that is a theological position across every major religion but is not itself an independent religion or religious group

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Anonymous #2 21h

Move to a country that isn’t majority Christian and let me know how that works out for you

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Anonymous #3 21h

I'd love to live in Sweden or Denmark actually

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Anonymous #1 21h

Unitarian Universalist is a specific religious denomination. 3 members of congress belong to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism

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Anonymous #1 21h

I do not identity as “no religion.” I identify as atheist. This is because many who are “no religion” are spiritual in other ways. I am not. I do not believe in the supernatural at all. Chaplaincy towards an atheist and someone who is spiritual but not religious will be different. The distinction matters.

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Anonymous OP 21h

This is such a dumb stat 😂😂 you compared how many u itsria universalists are in ALL of the United States to how many Christian scientists there are? What a clown

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Anonymous #4 20h

I’m pointing out that Christian scientists are still listed as a recognized religion while Unitarian Universalists are not, despite Unitarian Universalists having 17 times the population. This is to debunk the argument that the military is only removing small fringe faiths.

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Anonymous #5 16h

Atheism is the absence of a religion ie no religion

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