Mirror Mirror on Wittgenstein's Wall...
"It is important to distinguish between religion and superstition: 'Religious faith and superstition are quite different. One of them results from fear and is a sort of false science. The other is a trusting.'"
... which is which?
Superstition is defined as "a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge." "To believe in something with or without evidence." "To believe in the supernatural."
Faith is "a belief in the trustworthiness of an idea."
These definitions I realize are rather broad but so are the concepts. When it states that superstition is not based on knowledge or reason, one might argue that faith doesn't either. Sure faith is a belief in the trustworthiness of an idea but then again isn't superstition? After looking up definitions of both terms I do find it hard to distinguish between the two.

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