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The Satanic Temple took the Supreme Court at their word. In they asked Scottsdale to open a city council meeting with the following prayer :. Let us embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the Tree of Knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old.
Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true. That which will not bend must break, and that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise. It is Done. Hail Satan. Initially Scottsdale officials agreed. Satanist Michelle Shortt, a member of the Arizona chapter, was scheduled to speak before a council meeting that April.
When the Satanists sued, Judge Campbell ruled there was insufficient evidence to prove Scottsdale officials acted out of religious prejudice. The debate over what constitutes religion is an old one.
In , the Supreme Court acknowledged in Torcaso v. Watkins that there are many religions like Buddhism , Confucianism and even expressions of Judaism that are just not interested in God. Torcaso v. Watkins did not define religion; it merely ruled that religion is not synonymous with theism. Scholars of religion have suggested that religion is not reducible to theism or indeed any one element. They have noted that the word religion is used differently in different contexts.
In other words, religion is much more than the sum of its parts. Religion can also be redefined to serve certain political interests. For example, in the state of Florida could not legally execute paranoid schizophrenic and convicted murderer John Errol Ferguson because the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the mentally ill must understand they will die when they are executed.
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