What attracts people to superstition?

Question

Are these examples of superstition? Why? Why not?

1) Paganism-I mean no disrespect. It is just a question up for debate.
2) Wicca-I mean no disrespect. It is just a question up for debate.
3) Buddhism-I mean no disrespect. It is just a question up for debate.
4) Judaism, Christianity and Islam - I mean no disrespect. It is just a question up for debate.
5) Knocking on wood
6) What else?

I watching this compelling video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bh0rfziqo8a

Has anybody an equal or better rebuttle?

Something creepy happened. The link to the video no longer works! Did somebody pray for that to happen?

Answer 1

All are or can be.

What attracts is that it seems to offer an "explanation" for the unknown and/or unpleasant facts of life.

"Superstition" only differs from "science" in that it offers no logical explanation or proof for its conjectures, but relies on fanciful, poetic, traditionalist connections. Thus it's superstition to believe that thunder is angels bowling; science to demonstrate that it's the result of electrical conditions during a storm.

The fact that some people still cling to religious superstition is readily explicable as the obstinacy of habit produced by generations of systematic sectarian training.

Answer 2

faith = 2 or greater desirable people who share the comparable or comparable religious ideals who assemble jointly in that sharing. particular, it truly is actual and not arranged superstition. by employing the way, optimal superstitions do have a beginning up particularly. occasion: Superstition: do now no longer walk under a ladder. beginning up: somebody have been given injured whilst going under a ladder.

Answer 3

number 1 through 4 are religious belief systems and are not superstitions to my way of thinking but are rather a way for those in society to have a certain amount of control over others. knocking on wood is a superstition simply because it does no real tangible good for the person involved. other superstitions are of no tangible value but are done to make the person feel better.

Answer 4

Buddhism differs from the rest. No one is required to believe anything that doesn't conform to their own sense of logic-the words of the Buddha. And many Buddhists don't focus on metaphysics just the Buddhist way of life.

Answer 5

Superstitious people recognize that life is not limited by material causality. They are aware that every part of life carries valid information. Everything is an indication of something else.

Everything on your list is an example of superstition. Why do you have to say it, like it's a bad thing?

Answer 6

The human brain is wired to recognize patterns. If you wore a particular shirt when your sports team won a big game that they were picked to lose, you may associate the unlikely win with the shirt you wore that day, and it becomes your "lucky shirt". Even though clearly wearing a shirt has nothing to do with your team's performance...

Answer 7

Stupidity.

Answer 8

Good question; watch this video. It demonstrates how prayer is merely superstition.

Answer 9

Faith is not superstition. Yes, the non-believers like to lump all "believers" into the "village idiot" category. But how do you explain all the "believers" who are rocket scientists, genetic engineers, doctors of various kinds, astronomers, etc.

People of faith generally do not follow superstion. Knocking on wood or throwing salt over your shoulder. Friday the 13th and the like. Those things are superstition. Not faith.

Answer 10

The need to feel in control. In all those you listed (except Christianity), there is a false promise that if you this, or that, you will have control over somebody, or something. In Christianity, we trust God and let Him worry about the consequences. :)