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Post by FilmFlaneur on Sept 29, 2019 10:33:39 GMT
No religion encourages anyone to throw coins into jet engines for luck. There might be some stupid people who think that is what religion is all about. However there are no documents whatever to support such a view. This may or not be true but then: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6798979/Two-passengers-China-detained-throwing-coins-plane-engine-good-luck.html The first major incident of engine-targeted coin throwing apparently occurred back in June of 2017, when an 80-year-old Buddhist woman tossed nine coins at the engine of China Southern Airlines flight CZ380. In the wake of this debacle, numerous media outlets, including the Telegraph and the Independent, noted the woman’s Buddhist faith and that the passenger was superstitious. One can accept that throwing coins here was done in the name of superstition and not religion per se. But while not exactly the same, there are similarities between religion and superstition. For instance both superstition and traditional religions are non-materialistic in nature. They do not conceive of the world as a place controlled by sequences of cause and effect between matter and energy. Instead, they presume the added presence of immaterial forces which influence or control the course of our lives, the requirements of which need attention. They both demonstrate a desire to provide meaning and coherence to otherwise random and chaotic events. And one can be reasonably sure, given the other unique observances which characterise the difference faiths around the world that, if their god(s) had ever supposedly commanded the throwing of coins, then it would be done.
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