The major religions of today began when written communication was rudimentary and well before modern science evolved. It was a period of ign...

"Since the dawn of our species, an unquenchable curiosity has driven us to ask and re-ask the same questions: Who are we? Where do we c...

" Superstition , belief, half-belief, or practice for which there appears to be no rational substance. Those who use the term imply tha...

"I suspect that getting cupping prior to a race is no more effective than getting a relaxing massage minus any dubious health claims a...

"So next time you read a judgmental description of Catherine as a practitioner of the “dark arts,” bear in mind that astrology would n...

I, and many other atheists, have said that all arguments for a god or the supernatural are arguments from ignorance.  Why do we say this?  B...

"There are two things that theists always yell at me about: characterizing faith as 'belief without evidence' (which in fact t...

Empathy and cooperation from evolution and socialization, combined with reason and science-based thinking, are the antidotes. https://whye...

Of course it is a superstition. Note the 7th definition, however. It does what the American Psychiatric Association has done to the defi...

It's difficult, but a person has reached a higher state if he or she can overcome superstition and trust science to best determine reali...