Atheists and Secular Superstitions
Islam came to condemn superstitious beliefs; below is one fine example:
Bara’ reported: When the Ansar performed the Pilgrimage, they did not enter their houses but from behind. A person from the Ansar came, and he began to enter from his door, but it was said to him (why he was doing something in contravention to the common practice of coming to the houses from behind). Then this verse was revealed. “Piety is not that you come to the doors from behind” (ii. 189) [Saheeh Muslim, Book 043, Hadith Number 7177]
Many atheists try to mock believers in the supernatural as being superstitious, but what about “secular superstitions”? A sizeable number of irreligious people and atheists still hold superstitious beliefs.[1]
At least Islam has significantly narrowed the scope for belief in supernatural entities (e.g., angels, jinn, etc.) and equipped the believer with adkhaar and trust in Allah to deal with them when required. However, when it comes to “secular superstitions,” the door is wide open in welcoming the most ridiculous of beliefs, often leaving the person confused and lost on how to cope with them.
Here are some interesting excerpts to consider from this article https://www.discovery.org/a/7481/?fbclid=IwAR1TF7GUI_JasCtU5ypXvsHSrOFqaUBLx6u9kaNjjmvisQcwpn5OWoUn_-8:
“Gallup asked questions regarding belief in things like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, Atlantis, haunted houses, and astrology. Baylor’s researchers aggregated these figures, producing an index of paranormal belief. As Mollie Ziegler Hemingway reported in The Wall Street Journal, “While 31% of people who never worship expressed strong belief in these things, only 8% of people who attend a house of worship more than once a week did.””
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“Ignoring available data such as these, prominent atheists continue to claim that religion breeds gullibility and superstition while letting go of God hastens enlightenment.”
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“Even many non-religious historians of science now understand that, far from perpetuating old superstitions, the Judeo-Christian tradition constituted a radical break with pagan thought. It posited a single rational mind behind the universe rather than myriad irrational spirits in the universe. This Gestalt shift was crucial in the rise of modern science. It is no accident that experimental science arose in the West where the idea of the intelligibility of nature took root, for it made sense to seek orderly laws of nature if there exists a rational lawgiver of the universe.
While the findings of the Baylor study appear counterintuitive, perhaps they shouldn’t. Once we lose “faith” in the rational intelligibility of the universe, what is left to dissuade us from the latest findings of UFO-logy?
The existential question facing science today is whether it can survive an intellectual milieu dominated by the materialist superstition.”
"At least Islam has significantly narrowed the scope for belief in supernatural entities". I think looking at it this way misses the point; superstition is not defined by belief in the unseen, it's defined by evidenceless apprehensions. So for example there is nothing superstitious about belief in the Jinn or 'ayn, as this is entailed by rational belief in the prophethood of Muhammad ﷺ.