Tom Facchine – THEY Call It Superstition

			Some people look at religion and they just read it as superstition, right? And it's kind of the
modern secular sort of mindset. But all religion is superstition. But the key thing that
differentiates religion or true religion from superstition is the source, right? So some people,
they look at the fact that we make will do, and we do these sorts of things, we believe in angels,
we believe in devils, these sorts of things. And they will lump it all together in the same category
as a superstition, like, Oh, if I spill salt, I have to throw it over my shoulder, and I have to not
walk under a ladder and not break glass and Blackcats and the number 13. And all this sort of stuff
		

			for them. It's all part of the same sort of category. And we will push back. And we would say that,
you know, there's a fundamental difference between on an epistemic level about how do we know these
things? And how do we know what we know? And at the end of the day, there needs to be a reckoning
with how do we actually know that something is communicated from the Creator? And how do we know if
something's not right? And that's the fundamental difference between superstition and true religion
is that true religion can actually be proven to come from the Divine, it's a communication from the
Divine, whereas anything else that people invent for themselves, and it's stupid, and it is
		

			superstition? And it's all you know, bogus, right? But it's throwing out the baby with the
bathwater, so to speak. It's, you know, dismissing everything in a careless and intellectually lazy
way to assume that just because superstition true superstition exists, then anything that's claiming
some sort of unseen reality must therefore also be superstition. Right now, there's different types,
and they need to be addressed. But if somebody has the sort of doubt, well, it's like, okay, what
sort of why is there a punishment aspect to it, right? It all comes back to gratitude, right?
Because if we believe that this thing was given to us freely by a creator, then it's required that
		

			we be grateful for it, right? That is literally the essence of all morality is being grateful for
what you're being given. And so yes, there is punishment in the afterlife if if somebody completely
is callous and arrogant enough to not feel that they feel that they do. They don't have to be
grateful for anything, right. And then someone could raise a doubt, well, then why are they punished
eternally for something that was finite? And we've addressed this before many, many places, because
it was not their choice that it was finite, right? They had the intention to be arrogant and
ungrateful, forever eternity if they were given eternal life here on earth, they would have been
		

			ungrateful forever, and it was only outside circumstances that prevented them from that eternal
ingratitude. Right. And so they're going to be rewarded according to their intention. Right. They
intended eternal ingratitude, and so they're going to be rewarded or in this sense, punished for
their intention to be not grateful for eternity.