ABSTRACT
Mere belief in the supernatural is not the same thing as theism. You can believe in ghosts and omens and occult powers without believing in God or gods: many people do exactly this today. If you are hostile to their beliefs, you will call them superstition, a leftover (super-stitio) of the times when, for many, the point of contacting the supernatural was simply to harness such powers to their own purposes.
