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   XPost: sci.skeptic, alt.magick   
   From: gladiator@colosseum.rome   
      
   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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   “Modern Christian: Someone who believes in dragons   
   unicorns, talking snakes, angels, miracles and demons   
   but who insist that others have no idea of reality"   
   - Mitchell Holman 5.4.23   
      
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