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→Irreligion and Superstition
'''Superstition''' is a belief without justification based on [[fear]] of the unknown, [[ignorance]], or on a false principle of [[causation]].
'''Superstition''' is a belief without justification based on [[fear]] of the unknown, [[ignorance]], or on a false principle of [[causation]].
== Irreligion and Superstition==
== Irreligion and Superstition==
''See also:'' [[Irreligion and superstition]]
In September 2008, the [[Wall Street Journal]] reported:
In September 2008, the [[Wall Street Journal]] reported:
{{cquote|The reality is that the [[New Atheism|New Atheist]] campaign, by discouraging [[religion]], won't create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass superstition. And that's not a conclusion to take on faith -- it's what the empirical data tell us.
{{cquote|The reality is that the [[New Atheism|New Atheist]] campaign, by discouraging [[religion]], won't create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass superstition. And that's not a conclusion to take on faith -- it's what the empirical data tell us.