Josef Balluch wrote:

The Christian Church has always been highly antagonistic towards
superstition, believing it to be irrational and linked to paganism.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2292532,00.html

Your warning wasn't severe enough. This article is potent enough to
take out every irony meter for five city blocks.
"If these kinds of things resist secularisation, so, too, can
traditional religious beliefs if people take the trouble to pass them
on. It also intrigues me that so many people in church congregations
have not tested these practices against the doctrines of their faith.
People are holding in their heads different sets of ideas, which in some
senses are incompatible."