Sentences with phrase «among superstitious people»

«It's been around long enough that it established itself among superstitious people with no real scientific knowledge,» = > Ok, now you are way off base.

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«Superstitious dread of the corpse of a person» who died of smallpox was common among Pulaya Christians and missionaries found it difficult to secure a «Christian burial» for victims of smallpox.
It may well be said here that we have gleaned the best; much is repetitious, meaningless (to us at least), superstitious, crude, even savage and licentious, but if God is where the Good, the True, the Beautiful are found, who can deny that among these people there were those who saw something of His face as they «sought after if haply they might find him?»
In a world in which philosophy books and books on ethics must be looked for among the superstitious mumbo - jumbo of the «New Age» section of a book shop people like Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt can flourish.
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