What is disheartening is all this superstition?

Dear all,
I cannot believe that people are actually taking Eclipse so seriously.
Really, using Newtonian gravity to provide "proof" of the destructive properties of eclipses??
Why can't you people take eclipses for what they are - a mere optical phenomenon.
It is a rare phenomenon, that is true, but that doesn't make eclipses any more harmful than a shadow - for that's what they are.
I am not 'insulting' the science of India, or any other country. I am merely saying that superstition has no place in science. Just because a couple of rocks cast a shadow on another rock doesn't mean we are doomed.
Aryabhatta knew that, by the way.
I hope you agree that he was much smarter than you.
Plus, he was an ancient Indian.