> Superstitious people, as I see it, are those that respond to this inner calling by not responding at all. Rather than seek out the truth of the world around them, pre-fabricated ideas are substituted for "knowledge." Refusing a call to learn is much easier if one deludes oneself into believing that the call has already been fulfilled.


Um. Just to stir the pot a little: Isn't believing in what's written in the Bible -- indeed, calling it "the truth" -- subscribing to a pre-fabricated idea? I don't know much 'bout history, but I know the world existed for many long times before the things written of in the
Bible were supposed to have happened. I just wonder, purely for the sake of wondering, why those pre-fabricated ideas are acceptable as "knowledge" while other pre-fabricated ideas aren't.

"Curiosity killed the" Mousie, "too."