Is it illegal to spread superstition?

According to the Criminal Code of People's Republic of China (PRC)

Article 300 Whoever organizes or uses cult organizations, cult organizations or superstitions to undermine the implementation of state laws and administrative regulations shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years.

Whoever organizes or uses cults or uses superstition to deceive others and causes death shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Whoever organizes or uses a cult organization or uses superstition to rape women or defraud property shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Articles 236 and 266 of this Law respectively.

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Understanding of the relationship between superstition and science

Superstition is related activities carried out by people who have feudal superstitious thoughts and behaviors, such as immortals, witches, fortune tellers, Mr. Feng Shui, and people who generally have feudal superstitious thoughts. They are all feudal superstitious activities, including lottery, divination, fortune telling, fortune telling, divination, exorcism, geomantic omen, water treatment and so on.

In the national quality, the more ignorant and superstitious things there are and the less scientific elements there are, the more difficult it is for science to overcome ignorance and superstition.

Only by arming people's minds with scientific ideas can the muddy water of ignorance, superstition, pseudoscience and anti-science have a foothold, society can be stable and families can be happy.

The basic requirements of scientific attitude are earnest and meticulous, objective and fair, and seeking truth from facts. The scientific attitude is to directly oppose all forms of fraud, forgery and bullying. Nowadays, the society especially needs a scientific attitude.

New discoveries established by scientific methods and repeated by other scientists under the same conditions can generally be recognized as objective truths by the scientific community relatively quickly.

Superstition is a common phenomenon and has existed for a long time. It begins with people's fear of unknown natural forces, and then they are uneasy about social unrest and rapid changes, so they use superstitious activities to pray for good luck and avoid disasters.

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