I'm not familiar with case or statutory law about what actually constitutes a religion. The best I can do offhand is the gay wedding bakery, which has to do with the extent of protections for a clear religious belief rather than what makes a belief religious, legally speaking.
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I do recall a case in Minnesota in the late 90s (?) regarding some sort of conflict between an environmental group and an industrial interest. In some way, the industry's case hinged on their claim that the environmentalist opposition was /religious/; specifically of Deep Ecology
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I don't recall how that case specifically resolved, but I wonder if it might be some sort of harbinger for what fideistic conflict looks like in a United States where most groups bound by common belief are not religious in the traditional sense of common views of God.
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@JohnHMcWhorter, have identified "wokism" as a religion. Per some tweets by@pegobry a few years ago, I think that fits in the sense of fideism, and increasingly perhaps even in the richer sense of religionhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1269534491757797376?s=19 …Show this thread -
I don't mean to argue about this on the merits, however, so much as consider what it would mean if Social Justice were treated as a religion.
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This is an entire separate thread, bookmarking for later. I am tired and want some dinner.
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Missing some flavor of "except when it otherwise contradicts civil law" explication was a miss.
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Wow, great sentence brain. Jesus.
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