re the arrogance of christians if i don t think my belief is right and everyone else s belief is wrong then i don t have a belief this is simply what belief means unfortunatly this seems to be how christians are taught to think when it comes to their religion some take it to the extreme and say that their religion is the only one and if you don t accept their teachings then you won t be saved it takes quite a bit of arrogance to claim to know what god thinks wants especially when it s based upon your interpretation of a book the logic in the above statement is faulty in that it assumes two people with differing beliefs can t both be correct it s all about perception no two people are exactly alike no two people perceive everything in the same way i believe that there is one truth call it god s truth a universal truth or call it what you will i don t believe god presents this truth i think it is just there and it s up to you to look for and see it through prayer meditation inspir ation dreams or whatever just because people may perceive this truth differently it doesn t mean one is wrong and the other is right as an example take the question is the glass half empty or half full you can have two different answers which are contradictory and yet both are correct so for your belief to be true does not require everyone else s belief to be wrong if a person has what they believe is convincing evidence that god will save only christians it s hard to see how you can criticize them for arrogance for saying so it could be that they re wrong but i hardly see that it s arrogance let s look at this a bit closer suppose we had some combination of prophets and messiahs that taught us things but didn t say anything about exclusivity if we believe them and then add and anybody who believes anything else is damned then you could well criticize us for arrogance but in this case the exclusivity is in the message as it comes from the prophets etc so we could be wrong in believing it but i don t see how we can be called arrogant maybe the world isn t a soft place maybe certain choices actually do have eternal consequences i can see calling the christian message arrogant in a certain sense though only in the same sense as calling the law of gravitation arrogant because it doesn t give us any option over whether we fall if we jump off a building but not christians for passing it on given that they believe it the complaints i can see making are that christians are wrong or that god is arrogant clh
