Faith or Superstition?

Superstition is breaking mirrors and immediately feeling cursed.

Faith is believing in that which is greater than oneself and being blessed.

Superstition is what inspired Halloween.

Faith is Easter, minus the bunnies and eggs.

Superstition is reading the same astrologer’s prediction for you that everyone else gets and believing it applies to you.

Faith is reading the same Bible that Martin Luther read and believing that it applies to you.

Superstition requires no special effort nor does it need to be grounded in reality. Faith requires a dependence upon a greater reality and that does take some effort. Some people see the awesome grandeur of the universe and wonder at how amazing it is that it all happened by chance to occur. Others view the universe and are awestruck at the concept of an even greater Being that had to have created it.

It really is not a matter of intellect, for men both brilliant and simple can be found in camps pitched either in faith or not. Reasonable men choose to either believe in God or not. It takes no special IQ to be an atheist any more than it does to be a Christian. However, faith is as far from superstition as an atheist is from a Christian. It is intellectually dishonest to equate the two. For superstition is unreasonable and Christianity is as reasonable as a philosophy of life can be. It is not that Christianity is unreasonable but that it allows for the supernatural that separates it from humanistic philosophies like atheism.

I enjoy dialogue with those who disagree with me. Those who seek to “poison the well” by deriding my Christian faith as superstition miss the boat entirely. There is no substance to such an argument. It then makes me wonder, do you call a belief in God a superstition so that you don’t have to consider it, because it makes you uncomfortable? Would a careful consideration of the possible existence of a Creator God complicate your life or cause you to miss sleep?

A Christian myself, I don’t wish to see others miss the boat and take leave of this life without God. It is because I care about you who do not believe that I write something such as this. It is my hope that when a man or woman seriously thinks about God, that God takes that opportunity to help them realize that He is.

Everyone has the right (at least in my country) to believe as he chooses. This is as it should be. Be an atheist, be an agnostic, I will continue to respect your right to that belief. Shout it from the top of your lungs, wave a sign, do your thing….and I will do mine. It is great living in the good old USA where we are free to worship, heck, a flying spaghetti monster if we so choose. Eh, I wouldn’t recommend it, though!