Sentences with phrase «in superstitious»

Kent's second novel, The Good People, is set in a superstitious 19th century Irish village struggling to deal with a series of unexplained events.

Muslim children do not wear a necklace or the «one hundred families» locket which is used in the superstitious belief that it protects children from the devil.

This will be my last response to you pogue... most of us do not require your belief in superstitious nonsense to be good people.

For the sceptic the answer is simple — less educated people are more likely to believe in superstitious nonsense.

Not exact matches

Lee widened roads, dug canals, cleared slums, erected high - quality public housing estates, herded the satay and chicken - rice vendors cluttering the sidewalks into spacious food courts, cleaned up rivers, planted trees and zealously fined citizens, especially the superstitious who believed in ejecting the «evil spirits» lurking in one's throat, who splattered Singapore's roads with spit.

(sorry, I probably should have put G.Z. first in that word grouping, such as «Ground Zero / Mosque» since Ground Zero is more important... or is that an immature and silly SUPERSTITIOUS thing to worry about?

If I say, «Mediaeval documents attest certain miracles as much as they attest certain battles,» they answer, «But mediaevals were superstitious»; if I want to know in what they were superstitious, the only ultimate answer is that they believed in the miracles.

«Practitioners of Falun Gong, as well as other Buddhist, folk religionist, and Protestant groups deemed «superstitious» or «evil cults» face long jail terms, forced denunciations of faith and torture in detention, and the government has not sufficiently answered accusations of psychiatric experimentation and organ harvesting.»

We begin with the issue of supernaturalism in religion and its supposedly superstitious character.

I think we would all agree that most forms of belief in the supernatural are superstitious.

At this present time the Church is taken very seriously in atheist - Communist countries, and hardly ever looked upon as a mere hangover from a superstitious past.

It is a kind of submarine life in which faith sometimes mysteriously takes on the aspect of doubt, when, in fact, one has to doubt and reject conventional and superstitious surrogates that have taken the place of faith.

For instance, one of Hamann's works composed in French is a sardonically fawning open letter to Frederick the Great (whose superstitious servility to the mythology of Enlightenment reason Hamann particularly detested) called To the Solomon of Prussia, a text so savage and unrestrained in its mockery that no one would publish it when it was first written for fear of the state censor.

I believe in the power of the blood of Jesus but now this leaves me afraid to admit it, for I'm already pegged as superstitious and into magic — seems no different than the boogyman stories my once conservative church tried to lay on me, that my protection is in their oversight, that if I leave them my life would be destroyed, and more — we must be careful in our ernest seeking after truth that we don't become what we have despised and that we don't put on others our perspectives and understandings.

I believe in the truth of Astrology but now this leaves me afraid to admit it, for I'm already pegged as superstitious and into magic.»

In all our American communities, and in increasing numbers of communities around the world, churches are inevitable, and whether they are good or bad, efficient or inefficient, intelligent or superstitious, Christlike or bigoted, is one of the most important questions in the worlIn all our American communities, and in increasing numbers of communities around the world, churches are inevitable, and whether they are good or bad, efficient or inefficient, intelligent or superstitious, Christlike or bigoted, is one of the most important questions in the worlin increasing numbers of communities around the world, churches are inevitable, and whether they are good or bad, efficient or inefficient, intelligent or superstitious, Christlike or bigoted, is one of the most important questions in the worlin the world.

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

Because faith can so easily degenerate into superstition and self - deception, it calls upon skepticism as its ally in its unceasing attempt to purify itself from superstitious and deceptive elements.

Such a superstitious and unbiblical concept has no place in Scripture.

They took along with them four principal priests, who made their laws and instructed them in their rites, and ceremonies and in the most superstitious, cruel, and bloody sacrifices ever known, as will be seen farther on in this account, where the sacrifices are described in detail.

In remarks that have been frequently cited by his detractors, Spong complained that African Anglicans had «moved out of animism into a very superstitious kind of Christianity» and had yet to face «the intellectual revolution of Copernicus and Einstein that we've had to face in the developing world.&raquIn remarks that have been frequently cited by his detractors, Spong complained that African Anglicans had «moved out of animism into a very superstitious kind of Christianity» and had yet to face «the intellectual revolution of Copernicus and Einstein that we've had to face in the developing world.&raquin the developing world.»

There is an awareness of old Roman augury and priesthood, back when legislators «derived much of their power from the influence, of religion, or from that implicit belief which an ignorant and, superstitious people entertain of the gods, and their interposition in every transaction of life.»

In Hawthorne we find in effect a comprehensive interpretation of early New England history in which the founding generation is criticized but also admired — it was «stern, severe, intolerant, but not superstitious, not even fanatical,» and possessed «a farseeing worldly sagacity.&raquIn Hawthorne we find in effect a comprehensive interpretation of early New England history in which the founding generation is criticized but also admired — it was «stern, severe, intolerant, but not superstitious, not even fanatical,» and possessed «a farseeing worldly sagacity.&raquin effect a comprehensive interpretation of early New England history in which the founding generation is criticized but also admired — it was «stern, severe, intolerant, but not superstitious, not even fanatical,» and possessed «a farseeing worldly sagacity.&raquin which the founding generation is criticized but also admired — it was «stern, severe, intolerant, but not superstitious, not even fanatical,» and possessed «a farseeing worldly sagacity.»

In the process they hope to cleanse these groups of the magical and superstitious elements which often take root in secret religious societies deprived of an educated leadershiIn the process they hope to cleanse these groups of the magical and superstitious elements which often take root in secret religious societies deprived of an educated leadershiin secret religious societies deprived of an educated leadership.

There is no relation between the pure unitarian system, the most perfect and refined ethics of the Holy Book of Islam, and the ignorance, paganism, superstitious idolatry, arrogant materialism, infanticide, prostitution, incest, dowry extortion, oppression of orphans, disregard for the poor, and scorn of the weak which were characteristics of Mecca in those times.

Anything with Biblical or Quranic quotes — not interested in debates over superstitious orthodoxy.

I'm a recovering pastor who still speaks in tongues but I have to agree that people often relate to the gifts of the Holy Spirit with more of a superstitious magic mentality than one of faith and submission.

He gives an account of himself in close accord with the superstitious folk image of the Jew as ritual murderer, poisoner, and ruthless enemy of humanity» but especially of Christians.

I don't think we should get into legalism about this, and I don't think we should be superstitious, but in the New Testament there is more to baptism than you have said.

Once sealed, the tombs were perhaps the least likely of all places to be disturbed, for in Egypt as elsewhere, there was a superstitious dread of the dead and anything connected with them.

Both shows are ready to see an innocent child as tainted irreversibly by its father's crime — a superstitious and inhumane view that, fortunately, has no place in The Innocents.

Just as it surely might have been cleared up in the Logic what «transition» is and means, before going over to write three volumes describing its workings in the categories, astounding the superstitious, and making so difficult the situation of one who would gladly owe much to the superior mind and express his gratitude for what he owes, but nevertheless can not over this forget what Hegel himself must have considered the matter of principal importance.

Hence, his incredible statement that the growth of the superstitious search for and veneration of relics in the Middle Ages «bordered on excess and credulity.»

With advances in the natural sciences and mathematics, the eighteenth century saw a new confidence in human reason and a rejection of what was considered superstitious.

Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and the late Christopher Hitchens all wrote NY Times bestsellers in the last 10 years which encourage readers to publicly mock Christians for their superstitious beliefs.

The honest thief, the tender murderer, The superstitious atheist, demi - rep That loves and saves her soul in new French books — We watch while these in equilibrium keep The giddy line midway.

In contrast to the religious / superstitious women are women who have a strong sense of self.

This superstitious understanding of consumer religion becomes even more noticeable in other devices used by broadcasters to obtain contributions.

It has sometimes been suggested that what modern man needs is a religion composed of all the best elements of the existing world religions, purged of course of their magical, superstitious and miraculous elements and presented in an ethical form which might win widespread acceptance among men of good will.

Before the «disenchantment of the world,» something for which Protestants generally and Calvinists most especially can be credited or blamed, the presence of the divine in human affairs was everywhere acknowledged, however much some might deplore the more «superstitious» responses to it.

He was superstitious and at the same time a man of high ethical principles, humble in social life and arrogant in intellectual affairs.

The Roman Canon Law, still in force, had all sorts of superstitious regulations about the consecrated bread, that it was not to be touched by anyone other than a priest, that if one of the breads was dropped various purificatory rules had to be performed; now instead of simply lifting the rules, on the contrary, they almost compel everyone to touch the Sacrament, with a kind of compulsive hysteria, as far removed from the Gospel as the Roman rules themselves, though in the opposite direction.

There they were the object of considerable hostility from Greeks and Romans who regarded them as superstitious, exclusive, and — in the words of Tacitus — hostile to the human race.

In the end, his fear of the misrepresentation of the Jews and the bad effect it might have on his relationship with the emperor was greater than his superstitious fear of Jesus or his duty as a judge to administer justice.

Bertrand Russell, review, Science and the Modern World, in Dial 81 (1926) 179 - 86, also in Skeptical Essays (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1928), pp. 35 - 44, and Little Blue Book, No. 543 of Haldeman - Jullus (Girard, Kansas: 1947, «Is Science Superstitious?»)

In baseball we are superstitious, so I kept making the same protein ball recipe for the players throughout the playoffs and then the World Series, and we ended up becoming the 2015 MLB World Champions.»

Some superstitious and belief: by eating Tang Yuen, we will be one year older, instead of waiting for the Chinese New Year, where the starts of a new year in a Chinese Calendar.

Anyway, I did one of those superstitious things in my mind where you go «okay, so if I make it to the middle of next week with no pains, I'm good to go for the rest of training.»

I wouldn't call myself superstitious, but I'll still find myself thinking into the sayings «bad things happen in three's» and «when it rains it pours.»

But superstitious K - State Coach Cotton Fitzsimmons, who has worn the same purple - and - white - checked trousers, purple blazer and purple - and - white tie to every game since league play began, ran out of luck in the second period.