# Hegseth's Pentagon is drastically reducing the number of religions recognized by the military

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> [@DesertDog](#):
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> Speaking as an agnostic you’re okay with someone asked to risk their life for this country and just be tossed aside when they kick it?

From the point of view of the kickee what difference could it possibly make? Dead is dead. What’s said on the surface has nothing to do with it.

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