The Intangible Nature of a Superstition Makes it Irrefutable
Fable should be taught as fable, myth as myth, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truth is horrifying. The mind of a child accepts them and only through great pain, perhaps tragedy, can the child be relieved of them. Men will fight for superstition as quickly as for the living truth -- even more so, since a superstition is intangible, you can't get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, as so is changeable.
~ Hypatia of Alexandria (370 - 415 BC)
Notes:
A superstition cannot even be falsified.
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