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Superstition is itself a term of Catholic theology and specifically targets veneration without a formal doctrinal framework, which individual Catholics certainly might be guilty of at times but Catholicism isn't.

While the foundational tenets of Catholicism are supernatural but the system that sprouts from it is highly rational, descriptive and formal. It's a religion of Roman lawyers and it shows.

As a result I have a hard time seeing anybody dismissing Catholicism as superstitious, even if they a priori dismiss the existence of God, unless they have no actual knowledge of it (which, you know, ends up being most people who feel to need to utter an opinion on the subject).



Consider the perspective of the unbeliever:

Catholicism teaches that the laying of hands can endow a person (of male biological sex) with the power to transform bread and wine into flesh and blood through the ritual utterance of certain words.

It's going to be hard sell to explain how that's not superstitious...


So 'superstition' is defined as non-doctrinal belief. That would make it impossible for Catholicism to be superstitious by definition.

I guess I see what you mean by a religion of Roman lawyers...

To the Aztecs, presumably, there was nothing superstitious about using obsidian mirrors as a shield against evil sprits, either.


The alleged miracles of all the saints are the clearest examples of confirmation bias anyone could come up with.




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