Re: HOPE but not faith

Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 08-Apr-23 9:57 am, Michael McLean wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
> I don't really see how you reach the "atheist" conclusion.
>
> Religion mostly seems to involve believing that something, God, 
> exists, without supporting evidence. There does not appear to be an 
> expectation that something will happen as a consequence. Indeed, much 
> of the support for religious belief seems to form around explaining 
> the absence of things happening, such as protecting churches from 
> earthquakes, despite the supposed existence of God.
>
> OK, NOW you can probably reasonably conclude that I'm an atheist.

just ignore 'Mad Mike'

>
> Sylvia.


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