Are all religions superstitions?
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are superstitions. Buddhism is if full of superstition. African diasporic religions that involve ancestor veneration and divine spirits are based on superstitions. The main religions of India; Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, and Buddhism depend on blind beliefs and superstitions for its existence. Please, if any body can tell me, what religions are not superstitions?
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Permalink Reply by Hoorah on -
"what religions are not superstitions?"
None. There is no proof of any religion being real, or of any god existing. Therefore all religion is based on belief, faith, superstition.
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Permalink Reply by Doug Reardon on -
I don't even try to read black on grey.
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Permalink Reply by Warren on -
Ever heard of the secretary that complained to the computer admins that she couldn't see anything she typed? Turned out the color of the text had been set to white, same as the background.
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Permalink Reply by Elon Johnson on
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"If you don't believe it, it is mythology; if you believe it, it is religion"
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Permalink Reply by RobertPiano on -
Is it normal to decide while on a treadmill with an LCD readout that if I don't get to 3 miles before 17:00 minutes, that I will be killed by a piece of Russian space junk?
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Permalink Reply by Simon Paynton on -
Run, boy, run
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Permalink Reply by dataguy on -
As a relatively recently de-convertered evangelical Christian, it's makes a lot of sense to me when I view my past religious experience as merely superstition. It really is "myth if you don't believe it, and religion if you do." In reality, it's all myth.
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Permalink Reply by diggerbanks on -
Buddhism is a science or methodology. Taoism is observation and application. Hinduism is a specialisation depending on which mythological figure you choose to concentrate on.
Religion is not superstition per se but it evolved out of what we would now call superstition.
Religion provides answers to difficult questions. It is only over the last thirty years that our intellect (en masse) has grown to recognise those answers as ignorant.
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Permalink Reply by Andrew on -
Superstition is when you make unjustified assumptions (usually based on anecdotal/hearsay evidence) about how things work, and then you act on those unjustified assumptions.
Examples:
- Baseball player wins a game with his socks inside-out. Therefore inside-out socks produce wins, so he keeps his socks inside out for every subsequent game.
- Christian is told that wearing a scalpular will give them a free ride to heaven. Therefore they wear a scalpular 24/7.
Certainly some religions are devoid of these things. Atheism is. Agnosticism is. From what I understand about Buddhism (that it's not about deities or heaven/hell, but merely about accepting the unavoidable suffering in life), it is too.
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Permalink Reply by Pope Beanie on -
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Permalink Reply by Pope Beanie on
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(btw, i have trouble reading black text unless I highlight it by selecting it.)
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Permalink Reply by Kairan Nierde on -
Me too. Low contrast text on background should be reserved for spoilers only!
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