Sentence examples for to be superstition from inspiring English sources

The Communist Party has tried, with mixed success, to stamp out beliefs it considers to be superstition.

The moral dilemma addressed by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster is the same problem William James struggled with more than a hundred years ago, when he saw that belief in God, or in anything unseen and scientifically unprovable, was considered by educated people to be superstition.

Christian ministers in Scotland differed in their attitudes towards the traditional beliefs and myths perpetuated by their parishioners, and were often dismissive of what they considered to be superstition and paganism, but Gregorson Campbell persisted in enthusiastically adding to his collection throughout the late 1800s.

Research conducted by BBC Media Action found that although most people in Bangladesh understood these beliefs to be superstitions, they tended to follow them anyway - especially if it was easy to do so.

"There used to be cultural superstition around the cord, and families would demand it be buried," she said.

Liberation from superstition is called enlightenment, since, although this term is also applied to liberation from prejudices in general, it is superstition above all… that deserves to be called a prejudice, since the blindness to which superstition leads… is what makes most evident the need to be led by others, hence the condition of a passive reason".

Support has continued to grow after Episode 7. The first reason is superstition.

This is superstition but a nice way to start the wedding day by putting on them.

There was superstition that whenever they played it was going to rain, because so good.

It was superstition.

So, he said, was superstition.