Originally Posted By: tacit

One of the things I find most fascinating about religious faith is the notion that there is no awe and majesty in the universe without magic.


You are equating what most religious people I know consider to be divine power with magic. The concepts might be close, but there is a distinction. Because that divine power is manifested in ways humans cannot explain or comprehend doesn't reduce it to some sort of "hocus-pocus" trick.