Enlightenment thinkers went further, pushing concepts of good and evil into the realm of superstition.
There could also be the element of superstition involved, and Americans are superstitious lot.
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Like everyone in the village, he had faith in the rituals of superstition.
Even in their enthusiasm there is a mixture of superstition and pessimism.
Unhappily, the combination of superstition and anthropomorphism skews an otherwise skilful and engaging piece of reporting that raises intriguing questions about man and nature.
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Ultimately then, the all-out assault waged by Dawkins and his fellow travelers against the forces of superstition and irrationalism may be thwarted as much by birth rates as beliefs.
Visiting A Company last month, the fact that it (and indeed the Green Howards as a whole) have not yet lost a soldier on this tour was a topic that provoked a good deal of superstition, or indeed evasion.
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But when Stefan Kuntz equalised 15 minutes later, the sense of despondent superstition returned.
It is hard to know what to make of the chapter on astrology, superstition that Ms Sobel appears to take seriously, and which shifts the tone of her book from thoughtful to flaky.
Teixeira finds most players he knows have eschewed superstition in favor of routine.
That certainly did not impress Bruce, although the Black Cats manager had to be told what had happened because of a long-standing superstition not to watch penalties.
While education, science and understanding of mysticism have helped me overcome previous inclination to superstition, outsiders need to understand that these beliefs are part of the tenets of African traditional religion and mysticism.
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The family go to see him perform the Shakespeare play "Macbeth, " but bring him bad luck by saying the play's name aloud -- in defiance of a well-known theatrical superstition.
For ardent believers, arms control is a superstition, impervious to evidence of its futility.
Although a lot of science went into this landing process, superstition on landing night can't hurt.
Georgia is a proudly Christian country, and the significance of wine in religious worship is reinforced by superstition and custom.
The souls of the dead were supposed to revisit their homes on Samhain, leading to the sinister superstition that ghosts, witches, devils, and fairies roamed the earth for that one day.
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