Look, there is a big difference between Magic and Miracles.....erm.....they are spelled differently?

Sure, sweetie. Water into wine, humans out of dust. Angels, walking on water, water splitting. Yeah honey, you need a long nap.

You mean like turning water to wine?

Slow blink. Slowly walk backwards. Repeat over and over: "Not my circus, not my monkeys." lol

Transsubstantiation.

I would laugh &laugh

I'd think, everyone chooses their own level of self-delusion. ?

I explain that they do believe in magic, Divine Magic, and I explain they are actually practicing Sorcery.

It tends to make them irritated, but it is a fact.

Hahahahaha!
And then I walk away...
Silly christians

that's funny. i explained to my son that religious people pray because they think prayers are magic words that do magical things.

It pays to be good at compartmentalization. Rabbits from hats go in this box. Walking on water goes in that box. As long as the boxes don't mix, everything is hunky dory.

Where we run into trouble is when an atheist/agnostic consults his/her horoscope. Know what I mean?

I don’t believe you.

I'd laugh my ass off. Most religions are based on "magic" and he supernatural.

Do you mean like the trinity ,virgin birth ,pope

Well fundamentalists by and large don't believe in magic, as they use the term. To them magic is not merely doing things contrary to the laws of nature, it is doing them with the help of the devil. It's fine to do it with god's help. Entirely different thing to them. Satan = magic. God = miracles. Apples and oranges.

Depending on the individual they may not believe in "magic" as defined above because they don't think Satan has any real power, at least in their lives, since they're filled with the Holy Spirit, etc. Others live in terror of the power of Satan. It all depends on what fulcrum of control their handlers use -- which dogma is emphasized.

Please define your version of magic

Not even in a young girl’s heart? How the music can free her whenever it starts? The Magic’s in the music and the music’s in me.

My mom wouldn’t let my sister come see David Copperfield with us when my aunt offered to buy us tickets because there were “things that couldn’t be explained” that were surely the work of the devil ? no I assured her, as someone who had studied magic illusions. These things can absolutely be explained, quit being silly. Her belief in and fear of magic persisted though.

I once had an old fogey of a Pentecostal explain to me because I liked to work on computers: “did you know if you convert the letters of the word “computer” to numbers where A is 1 B is 2 etc... and then add them up that it comes to 666? If I hadn’t been raised to respect my elders I would have said “a) no it doesn’t and b) did you know that you’re practicing numerology to figure that out, and that’s clearly defined as witchcraft in the Bible?”

?????

LOL!

They think, EVERYTHING not from the gospel, is from the devil....including magic....so they are afraid of it and can't admit there is such a thing...poor bastards. Caught up in a religion of love that is based in fear....ya, good luck with that!...hahahaha

I laugh and say something to the effect: poof, we're not here; poof, we are. Magic trick. Poof, take a rib (men aren't missing any) and poof woman. A little food for many; poof, more than enough. Poof; rising from the dead. Many, many more examples of magic in the Bible.

The next question how did the demigod change water to wine (My answer would have been powdered alcohol)
Then how to come back from the dead (My answer a tad of tetrodotoxin from a stonefish after it wears off victim become revived)
Part the red sea (My answer the red sea parts as a natural phenomenon every so often)
Someone recently told me their deity was not magical. My reply is what do you call it then?

The bible is full of Magic, mostly what could be called craft, and ying/yang magic. It exists all through the bible old and new, apocryphal texts. Its there....

Equivalent to I'm a swimmer. I never get close to water.

Pull a quarter out of their ear.