Is religion organized superstition?

[Matt-]

not really because superstitions involve the member forming illogical beliefs about why something may happen

religions usually involves members forming logical beliefs based on something they have read and have been taught.

a person who does not believe in a particular superstition or a religion may regard both groups as having illogical beliefs, and thats a correct assumption about the superstions but an incorrect assessment of a religious group.

 

[shit happens]

Which group of hoes got dat ass?

Superstitious hoes vs Religious hoes

 

[VIBE]

not really because superstitions involve the member forming illogical beliefs about why something may happen

religions usually involves members forming logical beliefs based on something they have read and have been taught.

So, if one was to have a black cat cross their path and they walk under a ladder, they might attribute their "bad luck" to those situations.

Wouldn't sin be the same? "If I sin, then something bad will happen to me".

If you look at Sodom & Gommorah, they believe god destroyed it due to sin. That's considered a superstition.

 

[VIBE]

aaaannnnddd here it is moved to die, smh

 

[beenwize]

I think so...

"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel." -- Age of Reason (18th century), by Thomas Paine. Funny that he spoke of it being the words of a demon, when it really is!

 

[Matt-]

not really because superstitions involve the member forming illogical beliefs about why something may happen

religions usually involves members forming logical beliefs based on something they have read and have been taught.

So, if one was to have a black cat cross their path and they walk under a ladder, they might attribute their "bad luck" to those situations.

Wouldn't sin be the same? "If I sin, then something bad will happen to me".

If you look at Sodom & Gommorah, they believe god destroyed it due to sin. That's considered a superstition.

its not really a superstition if it says in the book that is the foundation of the religion that it was destroyed because they were wicked. If the bible is accepted as true, then from the viewpoint of the religious person, it's factual cause and effect. It's not just an assumption based on nothing.

having something bad happen to you after walking under a ladder, and believing walking under that ladder caused that bad to happen, is an irrational stance and its based on absolutely nothing other than a supersition.

you can walk under a ladder and it may fall on you. That's not really a supersition because the cause and effect are directly related and its completely logical to attribute the ladder falling on you as being caused by you walking under it. But if you walk under a ladder and like 3 days later you get robbed and you say its because of that ladder, then that is a supersticious belief because one has nothing to do with the other and trying to tie the two events together is a stretch.