{"id":48189,"date":"2015-02-02T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/avery_foley-how_do_christians_respond_to_superstitions_like_groundhog_day\/"},"modified":"2015-02-02T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:00:07","slug":"avery_foley-how_do_christians_respond_to_superstitions_like_groundhog_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48189","title":{"rendered":"Avery Foley&#8211;How Do Christians Respond to Superstitions like Groundhog Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superstitions abound regarding certain days, numbers, or objects. People fear that somehow Friday the 13th, black cats, broken mirrors, or ladders may have a hand in shaping the future. Most of these superstitions have murky, ancient origins and have been passed down from generation to generation.<\/p>\n<p>Recent surveys show that superstition is alive and well in the Western world. One survey reported that 20 percent of Americans think it\u2019s unlucky to walk under a ladder and 13 percent think a black cat crossing their path will bring bad luck. A survey in Britain found that 77 percent of those in the UK admit to being \u201cat least a little superstitious\u201d\u009d and 42 percent say that they are very or somewhat superstitious. How should Christians respond to these superstitions?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/answersingenesis.org\/christianity\/values\/how-do-christians-respond-to-superstitions-like-groundhog-day\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superstitions abound regarding certain days, numbers, or objects. People fear that somehow Friday the 13th, black cats, broken mirrors, or ladders may have a hand in shaping the future. Most of these superstitions have murky, ancient origins and have been<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48189\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,42,209,174,155,129,108,188,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-apologetics","category-other-faiths","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}