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
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 10:45:17 -0700, the following appeared in
sci.skeptic, posted by Siri Cruise
<[email protected]>:

>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.
>
>Thanks for the update Miss Pandora.
>
"Miss Pandora"?

Ah, another apologist for magic (or as David calls it,
"magick". Cool.
>
-- 

Bob C.

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