Chapter — Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis

Chapter I: On Superstition and Its Various Species

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General notion. Superstition is false religion, i.e., a vicious worship of the true God, or worship rendered to a false Deity or to a creature to whom it could not be exhibited. Hence it is of a twofold genus. Superstition of the former genus sins in the mode, the other in the term to be honored.

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