re the arrogance of christians in article apr geneva rutgers edu hayesstw risc unisa ac za steve hayes writes a similar analogy might be a medical doctor who believes that a blood transfusion is necessary to save the life of a child whose parents are jehovah s witnesses and so have conscientious objections to blood transfusion the doctor s efforts to persuade them to agree to a blood transfusion could be perceived to be arrogant in precisely the same way as christians could be perceived to be arrogant the truth or otherwise of the belief that a blood transfusion is necessary to save the life of the child is irrelevant here what matters is that the doctor believes it to be true and could be seen to be trying to foce his beliefs on the parents and this could well be perceived as arrogance let me carry that a step further most doctors would not claim to be infallible indeed they would generally admit that they could conceivably be wrong e g that in this case a blood tranfusion might not turn out to be necessary after all however the doctors would have enough confidence and conviction to claim out of genuine concern that is is necessary as fallible human beings they must acknowledge the possibility that they are wrong however they would also say that such doubts are not reasonable and stand by their convictions virgilio dean velasco jr department of electrical eng g and applied physics cwru graduate student roboticist in training and q wannabee bullwinkle that man s intimidating a referee my boss is a not very well he doesn t look like one at all jewish carpenter
