Is religions superstitous?

Question

it looks like it to me..if so how do you know whats true and whats not? dont say its from the heart everyone have the heart

Answer 1

A superstition is the belief that events are influenced by specific behaviors, without having a causal relationship.

A religion is the system of belief that humanity and God have a causal relationship - soooooo, NO.

Answer 2

Religion can be anything, you can make your car a god, or your dog, or your cat, Or anything, But there is only ONE TRUE GOD & HE IS THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, WITHOUT HIM NOTHING CAN EXIST. So friend yes Religions can be superstitous, But True Salvation can come only one way To God Through the Blood of Jesus Christ & what God let his son go through to die & rise again for our sins & came back in the same spirit of that of God but not this time as the Creator but as the Holy Ghost, which is the comfortor. So True salvation is not superstitous But real. Regardless of what anyone says or thinks, There is a big difference between religion & salvation.

Answer 3

It seems to me that superstitious is the wrong word here. They are a matter of faith, confidence in an intangible power.

Superstition would be trust in blind chance. Truths are testable. If they work they are true. For instance the 10 commandments happen to be a better way to live besides being from God.

It is proven that people get along better if they follow them and have less stress in thier lives.

Answer 4

Does religion insist on the existence of an unproven supernatural being?
Does religion insist that events can only be explained by it's particular interpretation?
Does religion insist that it has a right to displace, maim, torture, kill those who don't believe as they do?
In most cases of religion, by the first definition in the dictionaries, do insist on yes in all three cases. If they don't now, they did in the past and have merely engaged governments to do their mayhem.
Is this superstition?
It is certainly brutality.

Answer 5

What is religion to one person may be consider superstition to another. It all depends on your point of view and what you believe. As a Christian I have faith that what is written in the Holy Scriptures are true and were written by men who did so through revelation from God through the Holy Spirit. And I believe that I have the indwelling of that same Holy Spirit that testifies to my mind and heart of the truth of those things. But you see it is based first on faith, and any evidence that it is true that I recieve as far as miracles and answers to prayers come to me personally as a result of that faith and are not convincing to anybody else who is not open to have the same kind of faith, whiich is a gift of God. If they do exercise that faith, listen, and accept then they will obtain that same gift and the same testimony that I have.

Somebody else who does not have faith in what I do will say it is superstition. They have their freedom to believe what they want.

Answer 6

Religion is all about faith, and that is something everyone must live with on one level or another. Lets replace the word "GOD" with "BRAIN", for example. I have never seen your God, and for that matter neither have you. You may have seen pictures of your brain, but there is no physical evidence. You cannot see your brain, you cannot touch taste or hear your brain and live to tell the tale. So, you have to take it on faith that you have a brain (or any other major internal organ for that matter). You could say you are superstitious because you believe in a brain you have no proof of, but does that change the fact to you?

Jer

(Buddahist)

Answer 7

If you go by this definition, religion is NOT superstitious
"an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear".
Spirituality gives a person peace, a meaning for life, etc. Only those who choose religion because they want to go to heaven or are God-fearing would count as superstitious, i guess.

If you go by this definition, religion IS superstition
"A belief in something not justified by reason or evidence."
Because God, Jesus being God's son, Heaven, etc cannot be proven to exist. (the Bible does not count as proof: MEN wrote it thousands of years ago)

Answer 8

YES and NO. As religion didn't come from a couple books, but from 1000s of years of human experience.
And superstition is based on truth, but explains things in a story-telling type fashion, as people didn't understand basic things like physics, magnetism, and possibilites like telepathic and empathic abilities in those days.

Answer 9

It certainly is. There is some thought that 'religion' is actually ingrained in many of us as an ancient survival mechanism. If so, it will evolve away.

For more reading, look for 'The God Center' on Google.

What's true? Look for evidence. Use your logical mind. Use your senses.

Answer 10

Many contain superstition. Prayers, for example, are statistically proven to be superstition, yet people continue to pray. If it brings peace to the person then good for them, but it doesn't do anything.