Thinking a lot about the definition of "religion" in the first amendment. 2A antagonists spend a lot of time talking about how technological advances have made the original language ill-suited to modern contexts. I am thinking this is a more apt critique of 1A.
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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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Many, like (say)
@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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