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   From: nospam@buzz.off   
      
   On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 09:57:36 +1000, the following appeared in   
   sci.skeptic, posted by Michael McLean   
   :   
      
   >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?   
   >   
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