Bacon's Essays 17 (Superstition)
Bonus:
Kinda lazy tonight.
Summary: Superstition is even worse than Atheism, since it leads to following fools.
Commentary:
The causes of superstition are: pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies; excess of outward and pharisaical holiness; overgreat reverence of traditions, which cannot but load the church; the stratagems of prelates, for their own ambition and lucre; the favoring too much of good intentions, which openeth the gate to conceits and novelties; the taking an aim at divine matters, by human, which cannot but breed mixture of imaginations: and, lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters.
So, basically, no religion with too much ritual and such.
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