Magic Poriferan
^He pronks, too!
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It should be MP and I'm surprised at you weighing in.
Whether atheist or not and whether you're a detrator or not when it comes to religion no one should be able to treat it as dismissively as to regard it as mere superstition.
A universal phenomenon arising in all cultures and contexts, repeatedly revived, recurrently experienced? Whether you consider its truthfulness and efficacy to be fact or not is not the question, there is an undeniably universal human need and it has arisen to satisfy it, it has warranted a certain status and study as a consequence. Which superstition has not.
That religion arises to satisfy a need does not mean it is the only or even the best means of satisfying that need. At any rate, what you've described does in fact include superstitions that Christians usually reject. I could say the same thing about interacting with spirits and casting spells. It is known to every culture (more a less), and has not died even in this age when it seems so conspicuously out of place. It appears to satisfy a need. The study of why people believe in superstitions is quite fascinating.
Although, again, this is this unsophisticated and shallow disdainful attitude towards, what was at a time, very, very basic sociological reckoning and/or will to understanding/enquiry which is totally en vogue and invaluable to present opinion. It does not bode well for anyone or anything.
1: Some things that were basic reckonings have indeed proved to be utterly obsolete. We see this in science all the time.
2: I have to scoff at you implying I am some detractor of sociological understanding since I am rather a vessel of it.