«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.
Not exact matches
Egoism rests on a
superstitious absolutizing of self - identity and consequent absolutizing of nonidentity
with other
persons....
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.
Every once in a while, we will meet
with people who tend to be
superstitious about the most mind baffling things.
I am not
superstitious but I came to the party
with my own style... and I had a way of relating to the
people.»
And Hounsou plays the warlord — a wise old patriarch, as he's described, who uses the
superstitious fears of his
people to his own ends,
with the help of a witch - doctor.
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.
Despite the Church's strong warnings against such
superstitious practices, which according to several Bible passages are associated
with the doings of the Devil, the Romani were to find
people the world over who continued to seek them out.
It's understandable how, if a
person had never once consulted a scientific paper or sat down for a serious, ideology - free conversation about climate change
with one of the overwhelming majority of scientists who agree that man - made climate change is a real, observable phenomenon, he could be confused into thinking that the greatest challenge of our time is comparable to the medieval
superstitious that arose in the absence of scientific understanding.
It seems regardless of technology, whether we're knapping obsidian or fiddling
with ions implanted in silicon,
people are the same
superstitious lot as long as they expect to be punished for flourishing.