Sentences with phrase «superstitious practices»

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.
Prayer and other Catholic superstitious practices won't do a damn thing.
Prayer is a perennial fact about men as men; and one might say that insofar as sophisticated moderns have assumed that prayer is an outworn, superstitious practice, they have by that token ceased to be men and have contented themselves with being a rather sophisticated variety of simian.

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It seems particularly concerned to condemn superstitious or magical forms of religion; for example, it prohibits «sorcerers and witches» and recommends the re-education of those who practice «phrenology, fortune telling and geomancy.»
It also retains strong elements of pre-Islamic Arabic paganism, such as worship at the Ka» ba or holy house of Allah at Mecca and many superstitious, even magical practices.
She practices, teaches, and writes about feng shui on her website Feng Shui With Me in a way that is easy to implement right away, without resorting to dubious and superstitious cures.
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