{"id":37233,"date":"2014-06-21T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=37233"},"modified":"2014-06-18T09:25:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T16:25:55","slug":"superstition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/21\/superstition\/","title":{"rendered":"Superstition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember watching an episode of the TV show\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheQIElves\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;QI&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0several years ago where the host, Stephen Fry, in a flabbergasted fashion explained to the panelists and audience that the Catholic Church denounces superstition. From his atheistic viewpoint he couldn&#8217;t see any different between spirituality and superstition.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days ago there was a great article by Michelle Arnold on this topic of superstition which I think is well worth a read:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Superstition.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37234\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Superstition.png\" alt=\"Superstition\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Superstition.png 600w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Superstition-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As Catholics we have a rich faith with a wealth of devotions, but these can all-too-easily devolve into mechanistic superstition where we treat God and the Saints as our personal genie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong>What do you think we can do to stop this happening?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember watching an episode of the TV show\u00a0&#8220;QI&#8221;\u00a0several years ago where the host, Stephen Fry, in a flabbergasted fashion explained to the panelists and audience that the Catholic Church denounces superstition. From his atheistic viewpoint he couldn&#8217;t see any different between spirituality and superstition. A couple of days ago there was a great article by Michelle Arnold on this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2672,2671],"class_list":["post-37233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-st-jude","tag-superstition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37235,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37233\/revisions\/37235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}