1. Superstitions By Lindsey Medina

3. Superstitions; What Are They? A superstition is a belief based on fear and ignorance .

4. Superstitions violate the first commandment of God. Divination and Polytheism are also forbidden.

9. “ All men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman: but have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, of the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world” (Wisdom 13:1-2). Violates the first commandment which states, “ You shall not have other gods besides me”. Catholic Church’s Position

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