Very Superstitious

And how different from the rational worship of religion are the superstitious ways of carrying on, the pleading and groveling, that pass in most superstitions as worshiping God. Men worship as if it is an arbitrary and exceedingly vain tyrant whom they must placate and flatter, each religion declaring itself more worthy of His favor. This is how the religions all distinguish themselves from one another...Like children fighting for their parent's attention, they never realize that everyone's true happiness and blessedness consists solely in the enjoyment of good, not priding himself that he alone is enjoying the good to the exclusion of others.
~ Betraying Spinoza by Rebecca Goldstein, pp. 238-9 ~

When you believe in things that you don't understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition aint the way!
~ Superstition by Stevie Wonder ~

Two different ways of explaining the same concept!

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