re the arrogance of christians in article apr athos rutgers edu dleonar andy bgsu edu pixie wrote in article apr athos rutgers edu vbv r d eeap cwru edu virgilio dean b velasco jr wrote we affirm the absolutes of scripture not because we are arrogant moralists but because we believe in god who is truth who has revealed his truth in his word and therefore we hold as precious the strategic importance of those absolutes pardon me a humble atheist but exactly what is the difference between holding a revealed truth with blind faith as its basis i e regardless of any evidence that you may find to the contrary as an absolute truth fully expecting people to believe you and arrogance if you would bother to check in any good dictioanry or thesaurus i think you will find that arrogance has to do with an offensive exhibition of presumed or real superiority a paraphrase from my own webster s arrognace is about pride and haughtiness a person can believe in absolute truth even blindly whatever that means without being obnoxious about it just as a person can be a humble authority questioning defying any theist to reply athiest and be quite arrogant arrogance is not about what you believe it is about how you relate to what you believe and how you present it to others if your overwhelming experience of christians has been that they are arrogant i apologozing both for myself and on the behalf of those who have offfended you but my own experience at least in forums like usenet where you see a good mix of people is that arrogant christians and athiests seems to occur in about equal numbers phil hey we re talking about the phone company here the phone company doesn t have opinions on this kind of stuff this is all me
