Superstition
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From the search for answers to these questions arose a new epistemology, based on the empiricism and skepticism of science, which came to prevail over the forces of religion, tradition, and
superstition
.
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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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