Sentences with phrase «most superstitious»

In Taiwan - described by author Ed Lin as the most superstitious place in the world - the entire month of August is «ghost month,» dedicated to commemorating the dead.

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.

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.

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

And even if temporal help is the most absurd and unreasonable of all expectations, yet one would sooner whip up his superstitious imagination to hope for it than to lay hold on the Eternal.

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 world.

Like most non-believers, or superstitious believers for that matter — little or no understanding of the meaning of the word «theology».

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

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.

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.

Every once in a while, we will meet with people who tend to be superstitious about the most mind baffling things.

South - eastern Anatolia is perhaps the most undeveloped and superstitious part of the country, thus we encounter (I, a health technician, a nurse, two midwives and other assistant personnel) all of the health problems crystallized in a small area.

Most of the detoxification claims are sourced from Traditional Chinese Medicine or Ayurvedic Medicine, schools of health which are often very informative, but often superstitious too.

Most impressively, Vikings captures the grim reality of these times and the limitations of these characters — barbarous, superstitious creatures that they are — in a manner that draws one into their world without necessarily evoking sympathy for it.

This doesn't exhaust the film's cast of central characters — which also includes Min - min's excitable and superstitious brother, his equally vulgar wife, and Lili's mother — but it suggests the sort of displacements most of Yang's characters experience.

For most of her life Wise Sarah had lived under superstitious peasant eyes.

Superstitious, Zehrunisa had noticed that some of the family's most profitable days occurred after she had showered abuses on her eldest son.

It is central however to the superstitious and fearful who need to demonize any opposition to their nonsensical beliefs, including the unadorned and irrefutable truth; in this case recasting the responsible and mature concern for the health of the physical world that's the real «belief» motivating most «environmentalists», as «pagan» «nature worship».

For example, understanding that global warming is not a proven science and that there is no circumstantial evidence for global warming alarmism — which is why we see goats like political charlatans like Al Gore showing debunked graphs like the «hockey stick» to scare the folks — and, not understanding that climate change the usual thing not the unusual thing and that the climate change we observed can be explained by natural causes is the only thing that really separates we the people from superstitious and ignorant government - funded schoolteachers on the issue of global warming... that and the fact that global warming alarmists do not believe in the scientific method nor most of the principles upon which the country was founded.

We are a superstitious lot after all, at least most of us, anyway.