Quiz about superstitions

Superstition is the sin of giving purely natural things a supernatural significance. It is the fruit of human ignorance and corruption, and is strictly condemned by the Word of God.

Kashpirovsky himself spoke repeatedly about his negative attitude to Christ and to the Church. It is not coincidence that he said to the priest Maxim Denisenko in the presence of journalists that being baptised would mean for him to ruin his whole life. There is no doubt that Kashpirovsky's phenomenon is not a gift from God, but a demonic one.

Feng Shui can be described as a collection of superstitious beliefs. As a person is exposed to these seemingly harmless representations, he gets a pagan worldview.

Science currently qualifies astrology as pseudoscience and prejudice.

[This theory] is profitable only to the devil. And it is profitable first of all by the fact that a person who still has a remnant of conscience has a hope, a false opportunity to correct his life, but not now, when the time has already passed, but some other time, some other time. He thinks: "Now I live on this earth and I realise, of course, that I am a sinner. But it's all right, it's nothing. This life was not successful, but in the next life I will definitely change, I will pull myself together and try not to sin! And in that other life, when I come back to the earth, I will definitely start to improve myself spiritually and grow".

However, if we think wisely, his hope, even based on the theory of reincarnation, is also unfounded. Firstly, according to the karmic law connected with the theory of reincarnation, this person must go inevitably to a lower spiritual and moral level in the next incarnation and, accordingly, be born in worse conditions, even more encouraging to sin. Secondly, how will he take the mistakes of his previous life into consideration, when being born in a new body he will not know anything, as usual, about his previous incarnation and his previous mistakes? What should make him struggle with sin? The idea of Nirvana? It is unlikely.

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In magical practice, the effectiveness of rituals can be due to the effectiveness of demonic influences. In these cases, the transaction "in exchange for a soul" is a normal phenomenon. Of course, it is not acceptable for a true Christian to make a deal with the devil, and hence it is not acceptable to be healed at such a high cost.

It seems that in our fallen world there is no miracle that Satan could not perform (fake)... It is an axiom of holy theological wisdom that God's miracles always have an obvious good purpose – to encourage, to heal, to enlighten. The clarity of the purpose – bringing people closer to Christ – remains the criterion of the divinity of a supernatural phenomenon. "A true miracle is never accidental, but is by virtue of an inner spiritual reason, and its meaning is not at all in the forced possession of the will of a person through the influence of an external effect on him, but in revealing the inner spiritual side of life to him", – wrote A.B. Saltykov in his work " About miracles ".

Witchcraft, fortune telling, and similar practices are condemned by the sixty-first rule of the sixth Ecumenical Council (Constantinople, 681) as satanic practices and punish those who are engaged in these practices or who use such practices with a six-year penance; if such a one does not repent, but continues in his or her sin, he or she is subject to expulsion from the Church altogether.

It is not essential over which shoulder to pass the candle.

It is better not to pass candles at all, because people do not just stand and listen to good singing and look at priests in the temple, but pray. It is not good to distract people from prayer.

Gospel of Luke (20:38): "For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him."

Traditionally, candles for the repose of the dead are placed at the table with the Crucifixion, which is called the " kanun" (tetrapod table).

As for icons, nothing prevents a person from addressing a saint with a petition to pray to God for a deceased person. The Church is a community of the living and the deceased, so one can pray for the health and the repose of the deceased in front of any icon.

Yoga was not created as a physical training but as a spiritual practice. It is certainly possible to take gymnastics out of it, but in reality, this is not always possible. The yoga system and its literature are permeated with the occult component and it is not so easy to abstract from it as it may seem to an unsophisticated person.