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==Others== Philosophical models{{clarification needed|date=February 2023}} not falling within established religious structures, such as [[Confucianism]], [[Epicureanism]], [[Deism]], and [[Pandeism]], have also been considered to be nontheistic religions.<ref>{{cite book |author = Charles Brough |title = The Last Civilization |year = 2010 |isbn = 978-1426940576 |page = 246 |publisher = Trafford |quote = Deism and pan-deism, as well as agnosticism and atheism, are all Non-Theisms.}}</ref> The [[white supremacist]] [[Creativity (religion)|Creativity]] movement has also been described as a nontheistic religion.<ref>{{cite news |title=Neo-Nazi bought church with plans to name it after Trump. A fire destroyed it. - The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/24/neo-nazi-bought-church-with-plans-to-name-it-after-trump-a-fire-destroyed-it/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> The [[Cult of Reason]] was formed in the maelstrom of the French Revolution. The avowedly atheistic founders of the Cult — including Antoine-François Momoro, who had famously coined the Revolutionary motto ″Unité, Indivisibilité de la République; Liberté, égalité, fraternité ou la mort″—sought to replace French Catholicism with a secular, Humanistic religion venerating philosophical principles such as Reason, Beauty, Nature and Truth. The sociologist [[Auguste Comte]] devised a religion called the [[Religion of Humanity]] based on his [[Positivism#Comte's positivism|Positivist]] principles. The Religion of Humanity is not a metaphysical religion and as such there are no gods or [[supernatural]]isms in its belief.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bourdeau |first1=Michel |date=2021 |title=Auguste Comte |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/comte/ |access-date=25 December 2021 |website=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}}</ref> [[Religious naturalism]] and [[Secular paganism]] are both umbrella terms encompassing a wide variety of individual and small-group perspectives on, and practices of nontheistic religion inspired by the natural world. The [[Church of Satan]] adheres to [[LaVeyan Satanism]], which is nontheistic.<ref name="DwD">{{cite web |last=Robinson |first=Eugene |date=7 September 2016 |title=My Dinner With The Devil |url=https://www.ozy.com/true-story/my-dinner-with-the-devil/71233/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713103829/https://www.ozy.com/true-story/my-dinner-with-the-devil/71233/ |archive-date=2018-07-13 |access-date=2018-07-13 |website=OZY}}</ref> [[The Satanic Temple]], a non-theistic religious organization, is officially recognized as a tax-exempt church in the U.S. [[Internal Revenue Service]] on 25 April 2019 and regards the figure of "Satan" as a symbolic figurehead rather than a supernatural entity.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 April 2019 |title=Satanic Temple: IRS has designated it a tax-exempt church |url=https://apnews.com/6addf2f0ecb646919cb1cfcfdacfc6c1 |access-date=30 July 2019 |website=AP NEWS}}</ref>
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