For Bierce, Christianity was an antiquated superstition with no place in the modern world.
For centuries, the nocturnal cries of the Devil Bird were the only evidence of its existence; Western science wrote if off as mere superstition.
But one theory holds that this superstition arises from a Christian belief in the Holy Trinity: Since a ladder leaning against a wall forms a triangle, "breaking" that triangle was blasphemous.
The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy.
To see through this superstition, however, no way works better than by contrasting it with science.
This horrible murder and mutilation of innocent people is a powerful reminder of the dangers of believing in superstition and witchcraft.
In nearby India superstition holds that pregnant women should avoid going outside during a solar eclipse, as it's believed that light from the eclipsed sun can cause babies to be deformed.
The Western culture is no stranger to superstition, especially during a wedding.
The study suggests multiple reasons for such anomalies to exist: perhaps superstition is adaptive as a placebo, or for social bonding.
I also learned other Numbers have been polluted by superstition.
In order to appease the turbulent tribues, the chiefs propagated superstition to alter the member’s ideology and consolidate their reign.
Of course, it's only superstition, just for fun.
Anti-traditionalist thought bergson ism was based on science so it gave us a proof that in order to establish china modernity we should use western science to replace chinese superstition.
But in some parts of the world, such as central Africa, mutations that result in albinism (or a significant depigmentation) of a baby can provoke fear and superstition and sometimes even infanticide.
away with superstition and emancipate the mind!
The mirror superstition has since been challenged with the successful musical Chorus Line, and its famous mirror scene.
Isn't that just another term for gut feeling, or even superstition?
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