"Master, what are the main objections against taking a belief, a superstition, for knowledge, as True Word?"
"The main objections are two. First is, one cannot live according to the Way, when ruled by reasons NOT of the Way, not True Words therefore. Second is in those risks, gladly taken, but endangering all life. The belief that there is some outside controlling force that helps us. So we have to do nothing for saving ourselves. The first makes you sacrifice effort, rational life, because you have to light candles, touch wood, kneel with the face to Mecca, perhaps make three turns before crossing a doorstep, or interchange your shoes when passing a lamppost. It all is needless effort in irrational behaviour, round the clock or, at all inconvenient hours. Beside they may mean life-long misery and intense fear for the after-life. One continually doubt whether his stupidity was pleasing enough. It also may easely command you to kill and kill. The second may mean the end of us all, too. When there is a god who will not tolerate that we destroy his (its, hers, theirs) lovely creation, as we are well on the way of doing, it is soothing to know that he (she, it, they) will see that it shall not happen. Hence, we just can go on making kids, pollute the planet or throw H-bombs on the infidels. All of this is ... losing one's Way."