The Analects of Confucius

I found the opening two chapters of Confucius: the Secular as Sacred to be quite interesting. The first chapter, for example, emphasizes the interpretations of Confucius that suggest he subscribed to genuine supernatural powers and entities. After this, Fingarette systematically discusses and then discounts each of those propositions. I greatly admire this approach, and think that Fingarette does an exceptional job of it. Having said that, I found his summation of the arguments for Confucius being a believer of mythical entities rather disappointing. To borrow from Logic, I thought that Fingarette is guilty of the straw man fallacy. Not to a large degree by any means, but I think that he skims over some of those arguments in such a way that I didn't feel that Confucius could legitimately be interpreted as a sage purporting to understand supernatural laws of the universe. What do you guys think?