Christianity. In the clip posted by EDW contributor, Defiant Baptist, young LDS presenters openly affirm belief in a Heavenly Mother, the divine wife of Heavenly Father, and literal mother of human spirits. They ground this in: The plural Hebrew Elohim (suggesting multiple divine beings). The idea that spirit children are born to heavenly parents. References to ancient Canaanite worship of Asherah (consort of El) as a cultural precedent for a divine feminine alongside Yahweh. The Mormon view of Heavenly Mother flows directly from Joseph Smith’s later theology: God was once a man who progressed to godhood; humans can follow the same path via eternal marriage and exaltation. This is a form of henotheism or polytheism (multiple gods, with one worshipped as our Father) rather than monotheism in the classical sense. Thus, the DOW decision (even if later adjusted) reflects a practical recognition of these differences. While Latter-day Saints revere Jesus Christ, read the Bible, and self-identify as Christians, their doctrine of God, cosmology, and soteriology diverges sharply from the historic faith once delivered to the saints. Evangelical apologists and theologians have long argued that Mormonism represents a cult movement with its own scriptures (Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants) and prophets that introduce ideas absent from and often contrary to biblical revelation. One valid ciriticims of Pete Hegseth’s DOW is that the Mormons are singled out while Christian Scientists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Oneness Pentacostals, and even Quakers are allowed to remain in the camp. However, it would be difficult to argue, using Nicea as a standard, that the Mormons are not significantly more deviant than the other cults labeled briefly as Christian IF YOU ARE NOT BORN FROM ABOVE, IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU CALL YOURSELF.