Superstition
Faith in God and the four-leaf clover
Oh my I'm shocked. I'm taken aback. I'm astonished. I'm . . . Churchgoers are highly superstitious, even though the Christian Church as been antagonistic toward all superstition but their own for centuries.
CHURCHGOERS in Britain are still highly superstitious and centuries of preaching the Gospel have failed to banish belief in omens and portents of good and bad luck.According to a study, nearly all churchgoers admit to practising superstitious behaviour such as crossing their fingers for luck, touching wood for protection or throwing spilt salt over their left shoulder.
The Christian Church has always been highly antagonistic towards superstition, believing it to be irrational and linked to paganism. Through the Dark and Middle Ages, anyone suspected of using traditional charms to secure good or bad luck for themselves or others would usually be burnt at the stake or drowned. The victims were nearly always women.
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Could you set up a link to the study? I'd be much obliged.
I couldn't find the study, but here is the website for University of Wales - Bangor, Welsh National Centre for Religious Education where the researchers release their publications. There are many papers and books that they've released and can be read on the website. (Check the Projects and Publications links in green boxes along the top of the page, maybe you'll have better luck than me.)
Some very interesting studies there!
Love,
Hanna
I spent some time in Messina, Italy (in Sicily). The cathedral there is beautiful -- they have this gorgeous clock tower, gold embossed, but instead of numbering the hours 1-12 they have the signs of the zodiac. The 12 signs of the zodiac are also in a beautiful mosiac on the church floor.
While perhaps not exactly doctrinally correct, it's pretty!
Hi all, isn't it superstition to believe that God can impregnate a virgin? Or that a human being can be resulrrected?
Are they superstitions or they are no longer considered as such SIMPLY BECAUSE the church considers them dogma i.e. beyond reproach and debate?
Even though such resurrections and god-induced pregnancy are very popular superstitions and mythologies in ancient times in many countries?
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