Re: HOPE but not faith

Bob Casanova <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.atheism,talk.atheism,alt.agnosticism,talk.philosophy.humanism,sci.skeptic,alt.magick
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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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 don’t 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.

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 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

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