Do you think God belief is,itself,a superstition?

Answer 1

Yes. The belief in any supernatural entity, whether it be a god, ghost, maleviolent spirit, etc. is superstition, by definition.

Answer 2

In and of itself, I would say no, theism is not "superstition". People have their different reasons for believing, though they do all hear the concept of "God" (or some other deity) first before reaching any kind of belief. So it's a blend of what one is taught to believe, personal "spiritual" experiences, etc..

"Superstition" is a belief in a cause-and-effect for seemingly unconnected things. "If I break a mirror, then the next 7 years of my life will have more misfortune, had I not broken the mirror." Sometimes this belief is based on personal experience, but only one isolated experience ("I scored really big in the baseball game when I wore these socks, so these are my lucky socks and I have to wear them on every game.")

But I can see how theism might LEAD to specific superstitions ("Aunt Rosie's cancer went into remission when we used the St. Jude prayer and not one of these other prayers, so we should use that one from now on.")

Answer 3

kinda, religion has been around for donkeys years, but first began because science didnt exist and that people didnt understand things that happened. At the end of the day, all of todays religious teachings come from a book that has been translated and re-translated over many generations into what they are today. none of us where there at the time when these supposed gods where about, so its kinda hard for someone to say "yes, god exists" because they cannot prove it.

People seems to use God as an excuse because they dont seem to have any belief in themselves and find comfort in something else that isnt really a reality because reality is a little to hard to bear alone. kinda like a kid and an imaginary friend.

but thats my point of view. I dont knock people down personally for believing that there could be a god and what they do in their own home is there own business. I just dont agree with them pushing their beliefs onto others, including their kids. Everyone has the right to choose, so let them.

Answer 4

Yes I do. I think it is a very dangerous superstition too.
If all it took was throwing a bit of salt over your shoulder to satisfy the believers then it might not be so bad but the believers demand that everybody has to appease their God all of the time or be killed. They have killed many of the non-believers in the past and would do it again if they could. That is the problem.

The reason they do this is that they believe their God punishes everybody for what an individual does.

Just look at the philosophy of that at work in the claim of Fred Phelps or of Jerry Falwell that God is killing Americans because America is not persecuting Homosexuals enough.
Most Christians recognize the Phelps tribe as being off the scale hatemongers but they accept the same thinking coming from their televangelists as being reasonable.

Answer 5

   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000. 
superstition SYLLABICATION:su·per·sti·tion
PRONUNCIATION:
  spr-stshnNOUN:

1. An irrational belief that an object, action, or circumstance not logically related to a course of events influences its outcome. 2a. A belief, practice, or rite irrationally maintained by ignorance of the laws of nature or by faith in magic or chance. b. A fearful or abject state of mind resulting from such ignorance or irrationality. c. Idolatry.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English supersticion, from Old French superstition, from Latin superstiti, superstitin-, from superstes, superstit-, standing over. See st- in Appendix I.

First of all the definition says "irrational" and while many people are irrational about their belief in a God, that is certainly not true of all people. Your question overly generalizes. which by the way, demonstrates bias, and thus irrationality on your part. Next the definition says "object, action, or circumstance" but it does not say person. So the answer to your question is no.

Answer 6

Since the wikipedia definition of superstition is used to refer to folkloric belief systems, often with the intention of deriding another culture's concept of the spiritual world, then I would have to say yes.

Answer 7

God belief is not superstition. God belief is the only logical, rational explanation to the question "why is there something rather than nothing". It seems to me that the intelligent design answer to the evolution question is irrefutable. It simply says that design in the universe is undeniable. The law of cause and effect says that wherever you find design you must have a designer somewhere. It must be an intelligent designer because design and intelligence are inseparable. . So you need an intelligent designer of this universe. But who could design a universe outside of a God. You call Him whatever you want to call Him. I call Him a God. That refutes evolution since evolution says that everything came about by random chance. The I.D. argument, it seems to me, is irrefutable. It's a simple logical argument:
Premise #1: Wherever you find design, you need a designer.
Premise #2: The universe exhibits design
Conclusion: The universe needs a designer.
Either you deny Premise #1 or you deny Premise #2 or you deny that given Premise #1 & 2, the conclusion follows. You can’t deny Premise #1 or #2 and you can’t deny that given Premise #1 & 2, that particular conclusion follows.
The only way around that argument is to deny the second premise. Every atheist has to deny design. As I've said before, If you read Richard Dawkins two latest books('the blind watchmaker' and 'the god delusion') that's exactly what he does. He denies design. He says that there's no design in the universe, just the "appearance of design". But that's insane. You just can't logically and realistically deny that there's design all through the universe. It's all around you. You have to be blind not to see it. There are branches of science that basically just study the design in nature.........scientific disciplines such as nano-technology and bio-mimicry. These disciplines study the design in nature.......whales,bats,dolphins... have sonar.......and try to create machines that mimic that design. There’s even a weekly program on the science channel that looks at the design in nature trying to find leads for technology. Everywhere you look there's design. Where there's design there's got to be a designer. That's just common sense. Creation is not an unproven theory. It's a common sense fact that we come to by just using a little logic and reason.
. You look at bats. They do not fly by sight. They can barely see in the day but they sleep in the day. They are nocturnal creatures. They do all their activities at night and at night they are blind. They fly by means of sonar. They send out sound waves through their nose as they are flying. If those sound waves bounce off something and come back at them, they pick them up and know that they are heading toward something and need to veer in a different direction. Somehow they know how fast they are flying and they know that sound travels at 761.2 MPH and as they fly they continue to send out sound waves so they continue to get updated information. Given enough info(and continued updated info) a mathematician could sit down with a pencil and paper and some calculus equations and figure out how far the bat was from the object and with the right info could even figure out if the object the bat is heading toward is stationary or moving toward the bat or away from it. But that would take time and if the bat took that much time he’d be flying into trees and telephone poles other things. We have developed computers that can do that in a second. That's what sonar is all about. The bat has a computer in his head that can figure that info out in a nanosecond. It knows what it is heading for without being able to physically see. It's flying by instruments(as pilots would say). Do you really think that the sonar equipment that is in the bats head just came about by random chance(read....luck) natural processes? You do if you're an atheist.
Paly's argument of the 1700's still holds today. He said that if you are walking through a forest and you find a watch sitting upon a rock, you have 2 possible explanations: 1)It was designed and built by a watchmaker 2) It came about the same way the rock that it is sitting upon came about.....by random chance. Which explantion makes more sense?
Do you really believe that dumb mud could somehow bootstrap itself into intelligence over billions of years simply by random chance luck?
To Dawkins, belief in God is a projection of human longings and a type of wish-fulfillment. Such an argument works against atheism as well since an atheist wishes there is no God and therefore believes there is no God.

Answer 8

Kind of, yes. Most of our concepts of God come from upbringing- with traditions passed on to us from our parents, whose parents indoctrinated them, etc., all the way back to 'Adam.' So in that respect, it's kind of like we believe because our parents told us to. If it wasn't our parents who indoctrinated us, then it was someone from their generation who likely did. If that wasn't the cause, then it was the books, written during dark, superstitious times, yet by which we've been indoctrinated. Whatever the case, without all the above, chances are, there would be no concept of God. If there was, it probably would be even more diverse than it already is.

Answer 9

I think that I know what you mean.

Let's see. I like to look in the dictionary and accept what it says:
noun
1. a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
2. a system or collection of such beliefs.
3. a custom or act based on such a belief.
4. irrational fear of what is unknown or mysterious, esp. in connection with religion.
5. any blindly accepted belief or notion.

I could see where some people might think that about Christians. But please understand, my pastor was a Philosophies of Education professor from Stanford University.
He told us often, " Church doesn't have to be a place where you check your brains in at the door."
And I would support that statement. Many people think that Christianity has to be stupid and ignorant. But if you are here long enough, you'll know that many of us can hold our own in discussion.

So people would accuse me of being only superstitious because I am Christian, but you keep you eye on me. I'll turn that around and say the same thing about Atheism and probably be more right about my charge to them than they are to me!

Answer 10

no, but it will be once some new religion comes ...

humans have a long history if religious beliefs, and bits of what was common religion at one point creeps into future, and stays as a relict. those things are superstitions, and current religions don't approve them.