New religious movement

Comte's blueprint for society stipulated the complete and total eschewal of ideas of liberty and equality in favor of technocratic values of progress and order.

And like his mentor, Comte entertained the notion of developing a surrogate religion, Now, where St. Simon proposed a new Christianity, Comte promoted the concept of a sociocracy, which he defined as a new religion of humanity.

And this anthropocentric faith would be enshrined through what Comte called sociology, which is a combination of sociology and idolatry, which involved a system of secularized sacraments and festivals.

And Comte believed that Through this system of devotional rites, participants would eventually consecrate themselves not to any anthropomorphic god, but to humanity, signified by the grand being and embodied in the great figures of history.

They reconceptualized the roles of God and Satan in a very Hegelian fashion, depicting them as a necessary binary opposition, working towards a great synthesis which would result in a repaganization of the world.

And this case of biblical revisionism inspired Bainbridge, and since then he's encouraged sociologists to take an active role in reconceptualizing traditional religious concepts.

And in a paper called New Religion, Science, and Secularization, which, by the way, you can find that on the Internet.

Don't take my word for it.