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vlyons

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6. Faith is nothing but wishful thinking

Reply to LuvNewcastle (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 1, 2019, 09:47 AM

Apr 2019

without any evidence whatsoever that it works without any input of work and effort. That people sometimes experience the outcomes that they wish for, just means that they have not understood all the complex causes and conditions that resulted in an outcome.

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Anachronism [View all] NeoGreen Apr 2019 OP

Are humans still humans? guillaumeb Apr 2019 #1

Citation needed. Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #7

There can be no citation because the proposition is undefined. marylandblue Apr 2019 #9

It's defined implicity. Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #14

Those seem undefined as well. marylandblue Apr 2019 #15

I know, right? Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #17

Perhaps for you. eom guillaumeb Apr 2019 #18

And anyone else who isn't hopelessly credulous. Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #20

We do a lot of things differently than back then. marylandblue Apr 2019 #8

Your examples are poor. MineralMan Apr 2019 #10

Here's something that's different: we've learned a lot from each other. trotsky Apr 2019 #21

Well, perhaps. It's diverting to come to the Religion Group. MineralMan Apr 2019 #22

Not a well thought out response. Voltaire2 Apr 2019 #19

It is a delusion to even think that an appeal to some invisible all-powerful being that we project vlyons Apr 2019 #2

If you had enough faith, prayer would work for you. LuvNewcastle Apr 2019 #4

Faith is nothing but wishful thinking vlyons Apr 2019 #6

It's a crutch. LuvNewcastle Apr 2019 #11

I like Top Hats Cartoonist Apr 2019 #3

Indeed they do. Here's one hatmaker who offers MineralMan Apr 2019 #13

I also like Derby Hats Cartoonist Apr 2019 #16

It will probably never go away since it seems able to adapt marylandblue Apr 2019 #5

We can hope that someday it will be a vestigial tradition, like the army's sabers. Pope George Ringo II Apr 2019 #12