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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.
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IF in fact religion emerged from superstition, and nothing has changed to make it fact then it remains superstition, whether it has "
emerged" or not.
The fact that there is superstitious ritual, culture or society does not make it correct or right. It is in fact a culture and society of the superstitious.