Sentences with phrase «more superstitious»

After the 1991 Gulf War, a Tel Aviv psychologist found that Israelis in cities attacked by SCUD missiles were more superstitious than residents of SCUD - free cities.

The more superstitious among us attribute ghosts to the things we don't yet understand.

(Secularists don't assert an evil God — that would be even more superstitious than a good God.)

Not exact matches

(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?

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

As modern knowledge advances and hitherto insoluble problems are solved, a good deal of religion will be seen to be based on false premises, to be inadequate for modern conceptions of the universe, or to be little more than a collection of superstitious taboos.

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.

One of the doubled - edged gifts of the enlightenment is that we've dispensed with a lot of superstitious thinking, but we've also dismissed the more useful side of myth - forming and cultural narratives.

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.

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.

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

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.

As materialists dismissed the soul altogether, Christian thinkers felt the idea more and more to be an intellectual embarrassment, associating it with denigration of the body and a superstitious view of creation.

Not only has daily life been transformed by science — for example, we no longer look to the realm of the sacred for a framework to organize our lives — even Western religion itself has become more rational, less «superstitious.»

Yet Russell did a second, and a far more sympathetic review of SMW than «Is Science Superstitious?»

More than anything, Paul was a profound humanist with a keen awareness of the harmful power of certain superstitious beliefs, so much so that he founded and became the first Chair of Family Action Information and Rescue, an anti-cult organisation.

But she was deliberate and more than a little superstitious, so she had waited to call for an obstetrician's appointment for fear she would miscarry.

Join Amiibo Jason, Happily Candied and special guest Ricky Berg as they discuss everything Super Mario Odyssey, Fire Emblem Warriors, the SNES Classic and more on this most superstitious day of the year.

Her exploration veered quickly into the realm of archaeology as she slowly uncovered fragments of detail and placed them together in the growing mosaic of her outline She is currently working on a novel set in an entirely different time and culture, «farther in the past but again about women's lives» Being a little superstitious she doesn't like to reveal more.

Inspiration for his illustrated dream worlds comes from «the darker, more primitive side of man: the superstitious, the imaginative, the unknown part of ourselves,» he says.

From Frida Kahlo to Coco Chanel, Salvador Dalí and more, Artsy has explored the fascinating (and, at times, odd) superstitious habits of famous artists, designers and musicians.

The objects in turn were produced for a variety of rituals and practise that the West has traditionally regarded as not much more than superstitious mumbo - jumbo...

Horse feathers on both sides, but the concern's still valid, and it takes more courage to live with than superstitious claptrap, or as - yet still - comfortable denial.

I should have been more trusting, but I am suspicious by nature, superstitious and paranoid.

I can no more disprove your superstitious belief than I can disprove a religious belief in the existence of God.

Call it superstitious or anti-scientific, but if following a certain pattern helps make an attorney more confident or at ease during a case, one can see how the habit could fall under the heading of «can't hurt, might help.»

He truly had a superstitious fear that if he bought life insurance, then suddenly he would be more likely to die.