From the Editors October 26, 1992 Issue

FROM THE EDITORS

The Editors

Long before the beginning of recorded history, people felt influenced by superstition. Today many superstitious beliefs continue to exist even while most people consider themselves too sophisticated and well informed to be duped. Although superstition shows up in many forms, it all boils down to one assumption: that mysterious powers apart from God exist and affect human experience.

Yet when closely examined in the light of God's singular, omnipotent power, superstition has the wheels knocked out from underneath it. God's allness doesn't allow for competing powers. As the First Commandment in the Bible states, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

If belief in powers apart from God is at the root of superstition, then more than anxiety or fear about walking under ladders, black cats, Friday the thirteenth, needs to be watched. Wouldn't anything that claims to contest the omnipotence of God be a type of superstition?

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