Superstition in example sentence

The government demands that Web sites, television programs, and other media meet three general criteria:They must support, or at least not hinder, China's efforts to sustain economic growth, maintain social order, unify with Taiwan, and secure international respect;They must support, or at least not question, the Chinese Communist Party's monopoly on political power; andThey must oppose such "negative" social phenomena as "spiritual pollution" (for example, pornography and drug abuse), "bourgeois liberalization" (Western-style democratization), "feudal superstition" (the Falun Gong and other proscribed religions), and "worship of things foreign" (especially American popular culture).

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In Africa, superstition is widespread, with so many people believing in witchcraft, something that has no basis in reason or in science.

So you tell me why, in our age of science, we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition.

If you believe that humans can improve their lot, I have been told, that means that you have a blind faith and a quasi-religious belief in the outmoded superstition and the false promise of the myth of the onward march of inexorable progress.

And this story belongs not to any tribe but to all of humanity, to any sentient creature with the power of reason and the urge to persist in its being, for it requires only the convictions that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering and knowledge is better than ignorance and superstition.

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