[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Simply put: superstition is the practice of inferring causation from correlation. Religion may have emerged from a superstitious worldview, but the key here is that in many of its present forms, it has in fact emerged. Religion is composed of ritual, culture, social memory, and various cues that bind communities together—not all of them in all places and forms are pattern-seeking behaviours.

It's all superstition.