Sentence examples for as a superstition from inspiring English sources

He regards God as a superstition employed by religions for the purpose of control and repression.

He regarded the Calvinist obsession with sin and sacrifice as a superstition, and he didn't want his prize pupil's head filled with gloomy fundamentalist dogma.

What is widely known among us as "the sweater curse" is recognized as a superstition, but one which many personal accounts support.

Almighty God may not have existed until now, except as a superstition, but SF can predict Him, created by human history – I use the pronoun inclusively, of course, but they do tend to be male-ish; either the ultimate übermensch, or maybe an omnipotent, omniscient AI, spontaneously generated by the datasphere.

If our justificatory problem is not simply what morality requires, but whether morality ought to be paid attention to, or instead dismissed as a superstition based on outmoded metaphysical theories, then obviously the parties to the agreement must not employ moral judgments in their reasoning.

Since then he is lighting a candle every single night as a superstition.

He provides overwhelming evidence that our view of the gun is as deep a superstition as any that affected Native Americans in the 17th century.

But the films that came after it have mostly bombed at the box office, a fact that has led film financiers to regard the war with a superstition as potent as that which has actors referring to "Macbeth" as "the Scottish play".Why is this so?

He may well have regarded hatred of Jews as just a superstition.

I don't know if that's a superstition as much as probably a wise understanding on my part that if I were to try to articulate it prematurely, I would illuminate for myself a little too clearly just how fraudulent the whole enterprise is.

"The divorce between liberalism and professionalism as educational missions rests on a superstition: that the practical is the enemy of the true," he writes.