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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.
The name stuck, and soon came to describe the Medieval period overall, with its associations of darkness, superstition, and simplicity.
Now you, as Westerners, and I, as Westerners, would say well, that's superstition.
O’Connor’s mastery of the grotesque and her explorations of the insularity and superstition of the South led her to be classified as a Southern Gothic writer.
On the other hand, it also taught me where superstition gets me because I really had a terrible time in Hong Kong.
There is my world and there is your world, and my world is always better than your world, because my world, you see, is rational and yours is superstition.
And that's called superstition, and that, I'm afraid, we will always have with us.
Instead of ending with the heavy-handed religious mumbo jumbo, the film should have kept the focus on being a frothy road movie with maybe some undertones about fate and superstition vs. logic peppered through.
The points of religious superstition were quite authentic to the Catholic church.
This is a tale of superstition and suspicion in a small Italian town out in the middle of nowhere, where young boys are dying mysteriously.
This features traces of the "giallo" genre, but also with a vivid Italian countryside setting, where ignorance and superstition are deadlier than any serial killer.
The setting is strong, and a case can be made for the literal symbolism (the chain, the radiator, the strange blurry man who haunts Rae's libido) being a deliberate outgrowth of superstition and spirituality.
I think my favourite part was the completely irony-free bit where a priest tells an old pagan gypsy woman: "Fighting superstition is as hard as fighting Satan himself!"
it also opened my mind to the intelligence of the uneducated among us--i loved that guilia was so real and right-n and so full of peasant superstition that in no way interfered with her ability to "get it."
Suspense builds as each person is struck-down and the superstition of Feredes begins to grow,fuelled by the malevolent housekeeper.
It is a widespread superstition that when a book is filmed, the movie is usually inferior to the book.
first series gets the viewers to get a feel for the programme and teach important lessons about witchcraft and superstition.
This film is a horrifying journey from reason and faith to superstition descending into madness.
We often hear of great moments in 1942's 'Cat People'; most specifically the swimming pool sequence and an almost heart stopping moment involving a scary walk and a bus or we may further be reminded of great scenes of psychological terror in Lewton's other movies, notably 'I walked With a Zombie'(1943) and 'The Body Snatcher' (1945), but we seldom hear of the sense of impending doom and escalating terror evoked during 'Isle of the Dead' which comes to head when we realise that one of the primary characters has been buried alive and it's her consequent insanity blended perfectly with an eruption of repressed superstition that chills the viewer in the final fifteen or so minutes.
This fact made locals very suspicious and unfriendly, because of superstition of murdered nun's revenge.
In the official view, Ahmadinejad and his circle lack rationality and wisdom; indeed, they are said to be in the grip of superstition.
Through bluster and demagogy, populist politicians are turning back the clock to a pre-empirical world, in which superstition and obscurantism were apparently better for everyone.
Spinoza thought that there was no more pernicious superstition than the belief in the immortality of the soul and a post-mortal heaven and hell in which the virtuous are rewarded and the wicked punished.
News accounts depict hordes of emotional people trading on hunch and superstition.
India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, argued that unlike religion – which tends to produce “intolerance, credulity and superstition, emotionalism and irrationalism” and “a temper of a dependent, unfree person” – a scientific temper “is the temper of a free man.”
In 1995, the cosmologist Carl Sagan expressed concern about the trend toward a society in which, “clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline…we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.”
This is the Europe of Copernicus and Erasmus, Henry the Navigator and Isaac Newton, and all the other pioneers who unshackled the human mind from the superstition and prejudice of the immediate past.
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