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The Satanic Temple, an activist group based in Salem, Massachusetts, is threatening to sue Twitter for religious discrimination after one of its co-founders had his Twitter account permanently suspended.
Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple's co-founder and spokesman, said his Twitter account was permanently suspended without any notice after he asked his followers to report a tweet that called for the Satanic Temple to be burned down.
"We're talking to lawyers today," Greaves said Friday about whether he planned to take legal action.
Source: http://www.newsweek.com/satanic-temple-threatens-sue-twitter-over-religious-discrimination-780148
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 15 2018, @09:03PM (6 children)
You're on to something there. I looked at that miracle working thing, a few decades ago. Yeah, prior to the internet. I actually dug into some of canonical law, and read some of the "authorities" on the saints and their miracles.
I finished with the idea that if enough people swore that something happened, then it didn't matter if it happened or not. With enough witnesses, the church will accept that it happened. The Catholic church is less concerned with proving that the miracle took place, than they are concerned with how that miracle conforms to doctrine.
Statues with stigmata? I've never seen a statue bleeding, nor have you, nor have the vast majority of people in the world. It's possible that not one single church official has ever seen a bleeding stone statue. But, with enough believers in the statue, the church will accept that the statue bleeds. Their primary concern is how that belief will advance or hinder church doctrine.
So, all you need is a simple case of mass nysteria to "prove" that a miracle has taken place.
Fraud? Maybe, maybe not. Just simple mass hysteria will suffice. For common examples of mass hysteria, go to Youtube, and look for some of the more famous bands. Freaky people doing freaky things, for freaky people screaming, chanting, singing, dancing, toking and smoking like madmen. I truly suspect that witnesses to miracles are very much like those screaming audiences at concerts. They WANT to believe in something, and they think that they have found something worthy of belief.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday January 15 2018, @09:18PM
It would make sense if miracles were defined in that way, before, they helped forming the catholic church itself.
If you think Mass hysteria fits occurrences of miracles, good to you. To me it's bad pseudo science.
Still wondering why meatbags desume from my comment that miracles have to be proven beyond the actual will of people to sacrifice themselves for the thus acquired faith for my definition to work. Am I touching some delicate wires.
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday January 15 2018, @09:39PM (4 children)
Mass hysteria? But that is very clearly Jesus' face on that toast.....
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday January 15 2018, @10:09PM (3 children)
TOASTER, it's a TOASTER
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(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:05AM (2 children)
But does it run NetBSD?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 16 2018, @03:20AM (1 child)
TempleOS, obviously :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Tuesday January 16 2018, @04:57AM
Shirley not? ;)