Religious Superstitions

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First of all, religious purposes are one of the reason that lead superstitious to be considered as psychological influence. Why do I say that it is religious purposes? It is because that most of the beliefs come from traditions that has passed on from generation to generation and from our upbringing. People teaches superstitions to us. Superstitions can be pass on from many ways such as from religious beliefs, parenting and so on. For religious people, most of them believe in story tale or history that came a long way in history and that have been evolved in this process. Religious people more likely to hold the beliefs in the unbelievable compared to atheist. This is due to their beliefs or worship to the God that teaches them the connection …show more content…

People from diverse cultures have added their part of blind beliefs in them. Cultural beliefs somewhat different between different races. In this multiracial world, different beliefs can be exchanged easily through social media. When a person searched on the internet or making friends with other racial people, they can exchange or learn some new superstitious knowledge from them. People sometimes spread some superstitious email through social media accusing that if you do not forward the email to others, you will be unlucky for the rest of your life. This causes people continue to spread these messages in order to make themselves avoid from getting unlucky for the rest of their life. They are just a bait for fearful and gullible people. Some of the messages maybe included contents such as forward these messages to how many people so that you will be lucky or unlucky for years or so on to make you worried after receiving these messages. These messages are just purely making the people who spread the hoaxes to feel good after they send out to the others and making them worried. Some of these hoaxes occur maybe because of some people wants to spread viruses for self-satisfaction. If these hoaxes are true, some may become a millionaire and some may even die the next day if they did not forward the chain message to others. (Security, 2013) Next, people worried about their life tend to have some superstitious thoughts. They needed some sense of control and the feeling of being safe in life. So they held on to the superstitious thoughts in order to live in their life by abiding to the rule that performing a ritual can comfort and calm their mind. (Hosey, Risen, Zhang, 2014) Having something to believe makes them relieve. A study states that when people done an action to avoid bad luck, the ritual calms the mind. Like knocking on a wood or known as touch wood is to

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