Re: HOPE but not faith

Sylvia Else <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.atheism,talk.atheism,alt.agnosticism,talk.philosophy.humanism,sci.skeptic,alt.magick
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 08-Apr-23 1:55 pm, Maximus wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

I would, but sometimes it's fun to play with these people.

Sylvia.
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