(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠

𐐢𐐰𐐻𐐲𐑉-𐐼𐐩 𐐝𐐩𐑌𐐻. ⩀ᒬᒧ⊓ ⊏🝕☐☐ᐱᒧ⪽⨃⟓. SAR and OFPA. God, family, and country. ✝️👨‍👩‍👦‍👦🇺🇸

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

The talks from the April 2026 General Conference are available for reading.

https://t.co/lWYzdz1quR

[Dan Shaha @DanShaha]

I've waited a few days to say anything about the recent Department of War (DoW) decision to not list The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a Christian religion. I wanted to make sure my opinion wasn't being driven by an emotional response.

I think it's a good thing. Initially, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was listed as a Protestant Christian religion when it was recognized by the US Military. The way that religions are listed have a few second and third order of effects, specifically manning requirements for Chaplains and Chaplain assistants across the force.

When The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was listed as a Protestant Christian religion then, from the DoW standpoint, any Protestant Chaplain can meet the religious needs of LDS Service members. When it comes to manning requirements, an LDS Chaplain and a Protestant Chaplain become interchangeable, meaning that if an LDS service member is in an area that has the required number of Protestant Chaplains then there is no need and potentially no positions for LDS Chaplains at that location. Even if the majority of Christian-affiliated service members are LDS, as far as the DoW is concerned, their religious needs are being met by the Chaplains already assigned to that location.

Listing the LDS Church as a non-Christian religion means that the DoW now needs to ensure that they have a minimum number of LDS Chaplains among their ranks to meet specific religious needs. This opens up opportunities for promotion and advancement for LDS Chaplains currently serving, as well as a potential increased need for LDS Chaplains across the force.

Plus, and this is my opinion, Church leadership probably also had a say in how the LDS Church was listed by the DoW. The Government would have consulted Salt Lake, just like they would have consulted the Vatican and major Protestant associations, in ensuring their religion was accurately listed with the DoW. Otherwise it opens the government and DoW to lawsuits related to religious freedoms.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@Scath_na_Gealai @alanliddell_ @ExMosPostingLs That's actually a mirror that you're looking into.

Maybe treat people the way that you want to be treated.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@TaylorRMarshall I'm agnostic as to whether there is a Heavenly Mother. No such being is mentioned or specified anywhere in our doctrinal canon.

And spirits are not created; we are all spiritually eternal beings according to our doctrine.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@Mormonger Well, not in any way that's honest.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@Scath_na_Gealai @ExMosPostingLs All of our tithing donations are willing. And the Church actually does help people.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@Scath_na_Gealai @alanliddell_ @ExMosPostingLs Bro, you've been filling in as my back-up comedic entertainment whenever my show hits an ad.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@Scath_na_Gealai @alanliddell_ @ExMosPostingLs Not at all.

I'll admit, though, that it may have been silly for me to assume that you had such basic grasp and such access to a dictionary. Do you need any dictionary recommendations?

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@Scath_na_Gealai @alanliddell_ @ExMosPostingLs Ah, yes. A sex cult that …

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… requires all sexual contact to be limited to the confines of a legal, lawful marriage between man and woman.

Your credibility just implodes with every post, doesn't it?

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@DavidFish7 Interesting. I thought that it was by Jesus's Name that we are all saved, and not necessarily by His beard.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@AmericaExpanded The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wholly relies on Jesus Christ as Eternal Lord God and Savior, on His Infinite Atonement, and on His teachings, so …

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@bannednDC The Father is the father of spirits (Hebrews 12:9). Jesus is the Firstborn of all creatures (Colossians 1:15), making Him the Eldest Sibling of us all; that includes Lucifer, who was disowned and cast out by God—and therefore by Jesus—before the world was.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@MaxwellPaddock1 @RubenGallego Rule our own planets? Doubt it, there's nothing in our doctrine about that.

As for the other part of your question, you haven't really made that clear yet (please see linked tweet).

https://t.co/annijAR7iR

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@MaxwellPaddock1 @RubenGallego How do you mean?

Are you using "gods" in the same way that Jesus did when He (John 10:34) quoted the scriptures (Psalm 82) to His critics ("Ye are gods")?

Are you using it to mean "equal to God"?

Or are you using it in some other way?

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@NewMexicoRanger That's a part of Latter-day Saint heritage, actually.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@NerdKingActual @jules4U44 The doctrinal canon of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consists of the following:

- The Holy Bible
- The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
- Doctrine and Covenants
- The Pearl of Great Price

Please show exactly where such doctrine is written.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@JSlaughterEsq ✓ Matt. 4:19—Follow Jesus.
✓ Matt. 22:37—Love God.
✓ Matt. 22:39; John 13:34—Love one another.
✓ John 8:23-25—Believe that Jesus is Him from above and from the beginning.
✓ John 14:15; John 15:14—Keep Jesus's commandments.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@ThisOrTheOtter If you think that we Latter-day Saints are polytheists, then you should have no problem specifying the names of at least two gods whom we supposedly worship.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@alanliddell_ @Scath_na_Gealai @ExMosPostingLs Yeah, he's also starting to melt down a bit in his conversation with me.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@MaxwellPaddock1 @RubenGallego How do you mean?

Are you using "gods" in the same way that Jesus did when He (John 10:34) quoted the scriptures (Psalm 82) to His critics ("Ye are gods")?

Are you using it to mean "equal to God"?

Or are you using it in some other way?

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@Scath_na_Gealai @alanliddell_ @ExMosPostingLs "Cult" is synonymous with "religion"; the only people who aren't cultists are irreligious libertines. Anyone who subscribes to any religious or spiritual ideology is no less a cultist than we Latter-day Saints are.

[(Brandon) Buddy Cole 🟐 ✠ @_btcole]

@Scath_na_Gealai @alanliddell_ @ExMosPostingLs If you feel inferiority for such reasons (the only rational reason I can think of for why you'd accuse someone of feeling superior for <checks notes> speaking English), then that may well be a you-problem.