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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @10:25PM
Belief itself isn't really a necessary aspect of a religion anyway. What do Taoists believe?
Religion tends to rather be a set of shared traditions held by a people that binds them together as such (religion is derived from Latin "religare" meaning "to bind"). Many of those religions have shared beliefs as part of their tradition, but some don't, and indeed, some share their disbeliefs as a matter of tradition.
It's one of those things that is almost impossible to avoid as a human, and always makes me amused to hear when a person insists that they're entirely non-religious. Most atheists belong to some sort of religion or other, however informal, and indeed, national rituals such as flag raising and the pledge of allegiance are considered as civic religion by religious studies scholars.