Re: HOPE but not faith
Bob Casanova <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 09:57:36 +1000, the following appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by Michael McLean <[email protected]>: >On 7/04/2023 10:33 pm, Sylvia Else wrote: >> On 29-Mar-23 4:16 pm, David Dalton wrote: >>> Right now I donÂt have faith but do have hope that my global new >>> age onset magickal workings will have effect. >> >> Having some expectation that something will happen with no reasonable >> basis for thinking it will is neither hope, nor faith. It's delusion. >> >> Sylvia. > >No, it's life, fool atheist. > >Life does not exist according YOUR mind's reasonable basis, Ms Glorious >Mind. > >The atheist is always a self-worshiper! My questions are, why and who >anointed them the self-glory? > >One guess. > > Interesting; I wasn't aware that the Church had begun to support magic users, which is who Sylvia was responding to. Something new in the canon? > -- Bob C. "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'" - Isaac Asimov