Superstition

      It's bad luck to cut your nails at night. You won't get married if someone takes away their plate away from the table while you're still eating. Say "tabi-tabi po" if you walk across an ant mound so that dwarves won't harm you. Knock on wood if you say something that you don't want to happen so it won't happen. Turn your shirt inside out when you think you are lost so that you would find your way out. If you see a black cat crossing the road, you should get past it before it reaches the other side so you won't get jinxed. Well, these are called superstitions.

       When I was younger, I too believed in superstition. To defend it, I'd say things like "There's nothing wrong about it.", "What if it's true?", "It won't hurt if I follow. I'm just playing safe here.". But really, to believe in superstition means to surrender to a power--which you believe either consciously or subliminally--will punish you if you don't comply with its rules/rituals, no matter how ridiculous they may be. Think about it: if that power is a force that causes harm, where do you think does that power come from? It's surely not from a source of love and peace.

       Submitting to a power that's not from The Divine is offering one's self to the other side; I'm sure it makes "them" happy. I could compare it to offering food to duwendes (duwendes/dwarves are actually demons guised as small supernatural people. Some pretend to be nice.). In superstition you offer obedience instead. Even saying "tabi-tabi po" is an act of submission to duwendes. Look at it this way: "Po" is a unique Filipino word that we use, to show respect to an elderly or a superior. Would you consider a demon as your superior? If not, then why would you say a word that is meant for giving respect, to these creatures? You shouldn't be communicating with them in the first place.

       The first commandment of God tells us that we should have no other gods before Him. We should love Him above all. One cannot love God and yield to superstition at the same time. Jesus Christ taught us that we cannot have two masters. You can only devote yourself to one, and I pray that we all choose Jesus Christ, our Lord.

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