Divination used in a sentence

Divination in a sentence as a noun

The sorts that are not whitelisted are called "divination" or "witchcraft.

Are we really having a serious conversation on divination on HN?

A different knid of sorcery - in AD&D terms, divination rather than conjuration.

Either by some automagic divination that the program is stuck in the '80s, or with a simple rightclick->holy **** this **** makes me squint fix it pls.

] protestants do not consider this to be a blessed form of divination, thus the less mellow among them consider it to be witchcraft or whatever.

My point was that Christianity forbids practicing Hinduism just as much as it forbids practicing divination.

Of course, that does not mean actual Christians never engage in practices which are, in fact, divination - but people violating the premises of their own religion is nothing new. I can give you Jews eating pork, Muslims drinking wine and Christians hating their fellow man.

That is true, I can imagine a religion which encourages divination and for such religion divination would be a religious practice, of course.

Of course, you can pray for success of your divination, or you can try to divine if your prayer would be followed by some event, but those are two functionally very different actions.

Note that for prayer, one usually is required to be a believer, while for divination you don't really have to believe in anything as long as you perform the ritual properly.

This is of course false.>>> Furthermore, your definition of divination is steeped in Christian biasThat's a funny accusation, given that I am not a Christian and never felt a desire to be one.

I pointed out pretty clearly that a practice of homebrewn divination, in which the hero of the article engaged, is not "religious" and actually is explicitly forbidden by many religions.

But among the things many religions - including Avraamic ones most common in Western world - disapprove, directly in their scripture and in many other sources - is divination, fortune telling and seeking omens.

If you want to change your argument by conceding prayer is not divination and instead claiming prayer is "magical thinking" - be my guest, but then I'd recommend to actually learn what prayer means for people that actually pray and for religions that practice it.

As a complete outsides I don't see why anyone would be surprised, going to the doctor is quite often an expression of powerlessness, you have no idea and no control over what is going on in your own body and you need this powerful semi-stranger to do some divination on you and tell you what's wrong.

The question if Christianity is idolatry or not from the POV of anybody is not the question we were discussing.>>> whether it is acceptable to ask them to pray on your behalfI can imagine how it may be a problem for an ostensibly monotheistic religion, but that does not make a prayer a divination.

What you are really saying is "prayer is not divination because it is [magical woo] while divination is [magical woo what does not fit the Christian perspective towards relationships between gods and men]".Whether or not you demand an immediate answer or need to be a "true believer" when you engage in the practice are both completely inconsequential.