Superstition

Civilized races, cursed with superstition, cling to signs, tokens, and other remnants of the ghost cult, hesitant to abandon the methods used in their evolutionary ascent. 87:5.14

Doctrinal fetish betrays man into superstition and intolerance, enslaving him into the clutches of bigotry and fanaticism. 88:2.7

Each generation smiles at ancestors' foolish superstitions yet continues to entertain fallacies, guaranteeing amusement for future generations. 86:6.5

Jesus denounced all forms of superstition and exposed the fallacies of magic, mythology, and materialistic worship, teaching instead the truth of man's spiritual freedom and divine sonship. 103:9.4 149:2.10 150:3.2-12

Superstition is just ignorance in the uneducated, wholly unsophisticated savage mind. 86:2.3

Superstition, society, and religion conspired through evolutionary ages to render human life safe and sacred. 70:11.5

Your religion is becoming real as it emerges from fear, superstition, dogma, and tradition. 12:9.5

Science should be devoted to the destruction of superstition, rather than attempting the overthrow of religious faith. 81:6.10 195:7.1

Secrecy is essential to the successful practice of superstition and fraud. 90:4.9

In the Urantia Book

For a list of superstitions and superstitious practices named in The Urantia Book see the links | astrology; avoidance; bewitching; cannibalism; casting lots; coercion; divination; evil eye; exorcism; fetishes; flogging; fortunetellers; ghosts; holy water; incantations; Kaaba stone; knocking on wood; knotted cords; magic; mandrakes; manitou superstitions; massage; numerology; oaths; omens; oracles; ordeals; oudah; placation; propitiation; reincarnation; relics; renunciation; sacrifice; saints; scalping; shamans; shunning; signs; soothsaying; spells; spirit conjuring; spiritualism; Stone of Scone; taboos; thunderstones; tokens; tombs; totems; transmigration; visions; voices; voodoo doctors; vows; werewolves; wizards

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Sacred book fetish 88:2.7 — Is 11:12; Rev 7:1.
• Disasters not judgments 149:2.10 — Lk 13:1-5.
• Error of slavish worship 149:2.10 — Mt 23:1-39.
• Sons of living God 149:2.10 — 1 Ch 22:10; Ps 2:7; Is 56:5; Mt 5:9,16,45; Lk 20:36; Jn 1:12-13; Jn 11:52; Jn 20:17b; Acts 17:28-29; Ro 8:14-17,19,21; Ro 9:26; 2 Co 6:18; Ga 3:26; Ga 4:5-7; Eph 1:5; Phil 2:15; Heb 12:5-8; 1 Jn 3:1-2,10; 1 Jn 5:2; Rev 21:7; 2 Sam 7:14.
• Star superstitions 150:3.2 — Mt 2:1-2.

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