{"id":19760,"date":"2013-04-07T10:29:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T15:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19760"},"modified":"2013-04-07T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T15:29:15","slug":"us-army-labels-evangelicals-catholics-the-jdl-and-the-lds-as-extremist-religious-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/07\/us-army-labels-evangelicals-catholics-the-jdl-and-the-lds-as-extremist-religious-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army labels Evangelicals, Catholics, the JDL and the LDS as extremist religious organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to assume this is a week-delayed April Fool&#8217;s prank:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/US-Army-list-of-religious-extremism.jpg\" alt=\"US Army list of religious extremism\" width=\"336\" height=\"249\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/US-Army-list-of-religious-extremism.jpg 336w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/US-Army-list-of-religious-extremism-150x111.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to groups that probably belong on such a list (Hamas, Al Qaeda, the KKK), some of the more startling additions to the list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evangelical Christianity (U.S.\/Christian)<\/li>\n<li>Catholicism (U.S.\/Christian)<\/li>\n<li>Jewish Defence League (U.S.\/Judaism)<\/li>\n<li>Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (U.S.\/Morman [sic])<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/religion\/2013\/04\/05\/us-army-labeled-evangelicals-catholics-examples-religious-extremism#ixzz2Pn8qcgXi\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Starnes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Army listed Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism as examples of religious extremism along with Al Qaeda and Hamas during a briefing with an Army Reserve unit based in Pennsylvania, Fox News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe find this offensive to have Evangelical Christians and the Catholic Church to be listed among known terrorist groups,\u201d said Ron Crews, executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty. \u201cIt is dishonorable for any U.S. military entity to allow this type of wrongheaded characterization.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to assume this is a week-delayed April Fool&#8217;s prank: In addition to groups that probably belong on such a list (Hamas, Al Qaeda, the KKK), some of the more startling additions to the list: Evangelical Christianity (U.S.\/Christian) Catholicism (U.S.\/Christian) Jewish Defence League (U.S.\/Judaism) Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (U.S.\/Morman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,13],"tags":[31,360,446],"class_list":["post-19760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-religion","category-usa","tag-army","tag-christianity","tag-judaism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-58I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19762,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19760\/revisions\/19762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}