If someone calls Native American spirituality superstitious, is the person racist and bigoted or ignorant towards indigenous cultures?

@BohemianBoo Examples of conservative superstitions comes from mostly abrahamic religions that are patriarchal that put men above women, and controls women's bodies by strict abortion laws, they make laws against LGBTQ+ rights, and they don't care about nature nor the environment, they burn and ban books, or teach Young Earth creationism in schools, laws against free healthcare and they want guns and Confederate flags in schools.

I've never heard of any Indigenous tribes or groups or any indigenous or tribal spiritual wisdom or philosophical group burning books or trying to make laws that attack and marginalize certain groups. Dont forget in the dark ages in Europe, men were burning herbalist women and accusing them of being witches.


Honestly I would think it would be more superstitious or backwards yokel to think there's only 2 binary genders.

Gender is fluid and race is a social construct and climate change is real and the confederate flag is a fascist Trumpist flag.


Marginalized spiritualities and philosophies tend to be more liberal don't threaten society compared to the Conservative majority religion that's ruling.

A religion is a complex system, spirituality and philosophy is not complex, there's no temples, churches or lodges for spirituality or philosophy. Spirituality is liberating and personal, religion enslaves.

Only if they single out that one religion.

I believe in evidence not speculation. If the evidence does exist, enlighten us. Why should I show respect to con artists such as fortune tellers?

They're being objective and rational in their dismissal.
You can't objectively argue with them, so instead you're trying to attack their character.
That's poor form. They could just as easily say you're crazy, then you would have a personal justification for feeling indignant.
Why does religion have to be a personal thing? Why can't you chalk it up to just being a guess?

Not really, maybe ignorant but the person probably had a different worldview and perspective about spirituality than you. Not everyone sees the Universe/Multiverse as the same as you. You see the universe as an interconnected field of energy and that all things are one while some people don't see that in the universe.

Also a one man's belief is an other man's superstition.

What people considered superstitious is subjective there's no black or white definition of what is superstitious or not. My opinion the most common "superstitions" are mostly black cats being bad luck, walking under ladders, voodoo dolls, bringing umbrellas in the house, or four leaf clovers.

Also religious or spiritual people aren't the only superstitious people out there, there's also atheists and secular people that are very superstitious too.

perhaps any or all of those.

I know very little about it, would love to know more, but am a bit wary of new age band wagons.
How do you know if someone is offering the real thing?
And is it sacred knowledge that was traditionally permitted only to those who earned it?

I wouldn't say bigoted but to me it shows a lack of wisdom and intuition. Most people I meet seem to identify their own spirituality as very real and almost tactile, while every other other spirituality is just superstitious nonsense.

I’d probably give him/her a pass if he/she used the correct pronouns.

I’d put it in the same category as calling a yarmulke a beanie, somewhat ignorant but basically harmless.

There are better reasons to cancel someone.

performing ritual acts

those who do so are called superstitious

it doesn't matter what you believe or what religious denomination you do or don't belong to

[quote]The term "superstitious" can be offensive and can come off as insensitive and ignorant.[/quote] all true, but any spiritual belief that one does not hold could be labled as superstition. It seems unlikely that any offense was intended.

Climate change is real, race is a social construct, Donald Trump is racist and nature is sacred.

There’s no way you call any spiritual brief superstitious with saying they all are.

Just ignorant to the culture.

Neither... They are accuratly telling the truth about Native American Spirituality..

The Truth is the Truth no matter how it offends the woke..

Nothing is superstitious. It’s just blurred truth. Sometimes some facts gets distorted beyond recognition over time. If we dig into it, you will find some nature of truth in everything.

mmm...yeah, I guess. but only if we use less derogative when referring to the other ridiculous religions....

What if that person considers all spirituality beliefs as superstitious, just by definition?