no it isn't.
they are defined differently. But you just go "hurr hurr religious people are stupid amirite AMIRITE" if you want, I won't bother to engage you, even if everybody else rallies round to slap you on the back.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 12:19,
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Superstition
and organised Superstition
Touching wood? Religious origin
Throwing spilled salt? Religious origin
Fear of 13? Religious origin
etc
You're right, they are so different
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TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 12:25,
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none of those things are of religious origin.
you'll find plenty of Christians doing these things but you won't find any sanction for them in the Bible, or anyone preaching them from the pulpit.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 12:39,
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Touching the wood of the cross
The devil jogging your arm
The necessity to prove the sanctity of the number 12
How are they not of religious origin?
Psychic Sally is no more of a charlatan than the organised religions of this world. It's just they're in a bigger gang
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TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 13:04,
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touching wood has nothing to do with the cross,
it's to do with pre-Christian pagan reverence of tree spirits. I never even heard that explanation.
The "devil" might be a character in Christianity but there's no Christian logic to the salt thing.
Nobody has to prove the sanctity of the number 12. What does that even mean?
What you seem to be doing is confusing things that religious people made up, with things that come from religion. Isaac Newton was religious, and well into the occult as well, I guess calculus must be superstition.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 13:28,
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And what you seem to be doing is suggesting that there is a difference between "things that religious people made up" and "things that come from religion"
Religion is just something that religious people made up
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TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 13:42,
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Indeed, the current books of the bible were cherry picked from a much larger assortment of religious writings.
They essentially "made it up" like a collage is made from cut out bits from other photos.
But hey, people are welcome to believe whatever they want so long as the leave my embassy alone.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 13:49,
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going a bit off on a tangent here,
but I've read some of the other books that weren't included. Some of them are very strange. Bel and the Dragon is a highlight.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 13:54,
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Well i'm glad they filtered out all the strange and only left the sensible ones in.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 14:26,
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haha
it's all relative I suppose.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 14:31,
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Religion is something that religious people made up,
ok let's accept that. But that doesn't mean that everything a religious person makes up is religion.
What I'm trying to say is, superstition is a specific sort of made up thing, that isn't made up because of someone's religious beliefs (although it may be rationalised with them) but can be made up by anybody for any reason. The simple explanation is that people are just weird. And a lot of superstitions might have originally been jokes, carried on because they were funny, and then carried on because they were familiar. Like the memes we have on here.
There is no concept of good or bad luck in Christianity. You won't find any discussion of black cats or breaking mirrors in the Theology books, other than perhaps to condemn such beliefs.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 13:50,
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