Superstition and Christianity

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" "Three on a match." "Knock on wood." "April Fool." The use of phrases such as these are such common occurrences today that few would begin to consider them superstitions. Yet each of these, and hundreds of other, benign statements and common practices like New Year's Day, Easter, and Christmas, are traceable to pagan rituals or the response of the early Christian church to them.


It has been claimed that "the true origin of superstition is to be found in early man's effort to explain Nature and his own existence; in the desire to propitiate Fate and invite Fortune; in the wish to avoid evils he could not understand; and in the unavoidable attempt to pry into the future.". Indeed, our inability to explain or comprehend those things which happen around us provide for the perpetuation, rational or not, of..."

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