Why are people nervous of Friday the Thirteenth?

Question

The notions of Friday being an unlucky day and of thirteen being an unlucky number are both based on superstitions with a Biblical connotation. Yet while Christian believers seem to shun superstitions of this kind, people who claim not to attach any importance to the Christian faith or to the Bible choose to avoid Friday the Thirteenth when it comes to travel. I would heartily recommend Friday the Thirteenth, for example, as the ideal day to choose for air travel if you have to change planes at Miami Airport! Why should anyone feel superstitious in this way?

Answer 1

I have a very superstitious friend who is flying to South America, via Atlanta and Mexico City tomorrow. She had to delay her flight. I'll let her figure out for herself that it's Friday 13th. All these superstitions are suspect - although walking under a ladder does have some logic to it. Black cats are lucky in England and unlucky almost everywhere else. Christians do not shun superstitions. They're full of them. In the north of England, after the birth of my daughter, neighbours who I'm sure hadn't been inside a Church for years, didn't want me in their houses until I had been 'Churched' - cleansed after the birth! Mumbo Jumbo!
During menstruation Hindu women prepare their own food and use their own cooking utensils and crockery so as not to contaminate others.
Don't open an umbrella in the house and don't put a new pair of shoes on the table, if you spill salt throw a pinch over your shoulder. Garbage. I've got more things to worry about.

Answer 2

Lupee and Faz are on the right track.

On Friday 13th October 1307 by the order of King Phillipe VI of France and the captive Pope at Avignon the members of the Order of the temple at Jerusalem were all arrested overnight in the largest co-ordinated mass arrest in history. Few actually died that night, many more died under torture over the coming years. Finally the Grand Master Jaques De Molay was put to death by being roasted over charcoal on an island in the River Seine. The Templars wealth (Phillipe's main target) disappeared when the Templar fleet at Anchor in Toulon (I believe) managed to cut their anchor cables and flee (cut and run) and a thousand conspiracy theories were born, not least of which is Friday 13th October being unlucky...

Answer 3

Brainwashing from society usually. I bet most people who are afraid of Friday the 13th do not even know about religious connotations.

I am flying this friday and it doesn't bother me. Both my parents were born on the 13th and occasionally had birthdays on Fridays and it was never a problem.

Unfortunately, people belive urban myths because they trust that people are telling them the truth, which is why conmen make such a good living. Gullible people believe anything.

All of the bad things that have ever occured in my life have been on every day other than Friday the 13th!!

I would never get out of bed again if I thought it was related to the date!

Answer 4

They should not.

Friday the Thirteenth refers to the Knights Templar.

Friday the Thirteenth was the exact day that a decree was carried out on the Knights Templer.

It was the day the King of France decreed an assault on the Knights Templar in order to break down the power and seize the lands and money they had acquired legitimately during and after their participation in the crusades (your biblical connection) at that time in history.

It was a time of forced heretical confession and torture.

Many Knights were arrested, tortured, burned at the stake and murdered during forced false confessions on this date.

Forced religious suppression and confession to heresy due to political programs and the acquiring of lands and property under eminent domain under the quize of the church and religion thru the crown.

Surprised any one need to ask this.

Answer 5

The main reason that Friday 13th is considered unlucky is because it is the date when the Catholic church destroyed the Knights Templar. The Knights Templar were becoming very rich and powerful due to a banking system they created. The Catholic Church saw this as a threat to them and ordered them tortured and killed.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Many of the knights templar were slaughtered on this day in France.
It therefore also has the religous affiliation to Christians.
Im not 100% sure but i think that the knights templar were somehow linked to the old vatican.
Try googling knights templar and see what comes up

Answer 8

Because people choose to believe what they were told, until they get eduacted tat it's okay to travel on these days they will conrtinue to follow what others do.

At the end of the day most of humanity are sheep, look at how Bush got into power.

Answer 9

Most of these things are pagan holidays, adopted into the christian calendar to mock people of other beliefs...

April Fools day etc is a case in point...where it is a very important celebration, but christians went around calling them fools..

Real pleasant stuff.

Answer 10

Thinking through the text below, and reading between the lines I think you will find the diffinitive answer you need.

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Both silenced by the intriguing spectacle around us, we eased through the crowds and finally found ourselves standing in front of the apparently collapsing cathedral. There was a regular flow of people in and out of the doors and so, with great interest, we entered. I remember the first impression I had as I walked down the aisle. Lavish splendour surrounded me on all sides, making a marked and stark contrast to the poverty I had perceived in the market. Walking towards the point that lay beneath the central tower, where the intersection of two aisles formed the cross of the cathedral’s base, I noticed, hanging on a great wire suspended from the ceiling of the tower tens of feet above me, what I could only describe as the largest builder’s plumb-line weight I had ever seen. I stood motionless for a second, confused as to its significance, but then I noticed, taped out on the floor, a cross marking the spot at which, were the tower perfectly vertical, the plumb weight should have been aligned. Taking two or three steps back I was able to take a wider view of this plumb-wire. Visually, it gave me a very strange sensation as, hanging freely from the wire’s end, the huge weight appeared to be magically held by some invisible force three or four feet to one side of what should be true vertical. Knowing in fact that the building had suffered subsidence in the great earthquake of the early 80’s, I decided that the cathedral itself must be leaning and not the plumb-line, hanging untrue yet still. As I gazed upon the whole bizarre image, however, my mind, based on its store of previous experience, was telling me that the mighty structure in which I stood should in fact be upright. Coming in response to what my eyes were seeing, this information caused me to believe that the immense weight was in fact being unnaturally suspended.
It suddenly dawned upon me that what I was experiencing made quite a bold statement, a statement that I should use as a guide as I journeyed on my quest towards higher knowing. Our minds are extremely strong and, due to our socialisation within the fabric of society, entrench themselves upon a complex, seemingly immovable foundation. This foundation provides the basis from which we grow a framework of beliefs. Our beliefs are securely tethered to the foundation, whose form consists of indoctrinated material which may in itself be flawed. This seemingly secure framework leads us into what appears to be a true knowing, but this knowing may in fact be a delusion and we are being led away from knowledge of that which truly exists. So, what we perceive as truth may in fact be a delusion which lies nowhere near to an understanding of what truly IS.
I left the cathedral in a daze and, inwardly focused, I must have seemed drugged as I walked with little awareness of the 45 minutes’ return journey to our hotel. My mind was heavy with the question, “Being whom I perceive myself to be, how can I see what truly is?”

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This may, if you think laterally about the text may go some way in answering what is a very complex question

Regards. Jason..... I full of this kind of RUBBISH!!!