Superstition. noun
su·per·sti·tion
1. Excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings: "He dismissed the ghost stories as mere superstition."
2. Unfounded belief, credulity, fallacy, delusion.
3. A widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation.
Synonyms: myth, belief, old wive's tale.
No one wants to be known as superstitious, so gullible as to believe things that are clearly untrue. We smile with superiority at the person who believes good luck comes from a rabbit's foot, bad luck from a black cat; that toads cause warts and eating fish will make you smart. We're way too smart to believe in things like that.
And yet no one who believes in God thinks he's being superstitious.
1. Excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings: "He dismissed the ghost stories as mere superstition."
2. Unfounded belief, credulity, fallacy, delusion.
3. A widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation.
Synonyms: myth, belief, old wive's tale.
No one wants to be known as superstitious, so gullible as to believe things that are clearly untrue. We smile with superiority at the person who believes good luck comes from a rabbit's foot, bad luck from a black cat; that toads cause warts and eating fish will make you smart. We're way too smart to believe in things like that.
And yet no one who believes in God thinks he's being superstitious.
If there is any more profound disavowal of logic and science than the assertion that everything came from nothing, I am unaware of it. This is the very definition of superstition. Atheism makes this assertion, and is based in this superstition.
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