Is your faith in Buddhism based on superstition or wisdom?
If you have faith in Buddhism and you pray to the Buddha for secular blessings such as a bright future with a promising career and great riches, this is a superstitious kind of faith. If you cannot see through secular matters, you have not awakened. How, then, can you escape the suffering of birth and death? Your faith is based on wisdom if you practice Buddhism with the goal of attaining ultimate liberation from the suffering of birth and death.