as good luck (well, or bad, either, I suppose...)
"Luck" Has Nothing to do With It!
I just wish people would stop with the burying of St. Joseph statues thing. It is as superstitious as it can get, and I find it disrespectful and infantile. God doesn't work that way...
Silent Servants...
... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.
A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)
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this could really open up a can of worms. People do such things because they believe that they work: a plea for help/intercession/favour to a god, saint, or demi-god at the beginning of an enterprise whatever it is, or in times of great distress (ala a novena to St. Jude). People will look for anything that will perhaps tilt the scales in their favour or "put the fix in". This concept has been part of human nature since time immemorial.
A good question would be "where is the demarcation line between faith and superstition?" To some, all faith is superstition, and what others would call "superstition" is faith.
I guess it comes down to how good it makes them feel.
(St. Jude is my patron saint, if only because I'm such a hopeless cause in the first place...)
:-)
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