Women were taken to the temples to be inoculated of God so that their sons might be heroes, which meant, generally, wholesale butchers. In the days of the formation of the Christian religion, disease meant the possession of human beings by devils. Christ cured a sick man by casting out the devils, who ran into the swine, and the swine ran into the sea. The miracles recorded in the Bible are not the only instances of dead men coming to life. Still at Lourdes today, and all over the present world, from New York to Los Angeles and up and down the lands, people believe in miraculous occurrences, and even in the return of the dead.
Superstition is everywhere prevalent in the world.
It has been so from the beginning, and most likely will be so unto the end. The reasons for agnosticism are abundant and compelling. Fantastic and foolish and impossible consequences are freely claimed for the belief in religion. All the civilization of any period is put down as a result of religion. All the cruelty and error and ignorance of the period has no relation to religion.