The Arrogant Card

[Sophus]

Indeed.  What part of the country do you live in again and what's the weather like?

I live in a little oasis of liberalism and critical thought in southeast Ohio. Athens, home of Ohio University. The vast, vast majority of people I know are either agnostic, atheist or apatheist. Occasionally the religious folk will chime up, but since they're outnumbered they basically just keep it under wraps.

Summers are hot as balls and the winters will freeze your nipples off. Aside from that, very pleasant.  lol Well when I speak my mind about the Bible I don't say nice things, thus even some secular observers have thought I'm being rude or disrespectful. Meanwhile the bilbo in front of me doesn't even know the Bible as well as I do and says I'm arrogant for speaking my mind. And when did truth become arrogant? It really wouldn't be of the slightest concern to me if the people I care about didn't side with the easily offended person. Why is speaking bad things about something as bad as religion so taboo? Why can't they taste their own medicine?

Ha ha... so I guess what I really need is to convince them that I wasn't out to offend. It's more difficult than I thought it would be...

[rlrose328]

Let's do an arrogance test:

• I don't believe in a god or gods.
• There is a God, all powerful creator of the cosmos. Unmoved prime mover, omniscient and omnipotent, giver of moral law. He cares about me, personally, and needs me to worship him.

Choose the arrogance.

I understand what you're saying.  This is a boiled-down version of beliefs and the Christian version is based on a clinical view of their texts.  

I think what Joe is saying is that hardly any atheist would stop at that simple of a statement in 99% of the conversations they have with a believer if the believer says what your example states.   Therefore, it does look unbalanced.  

But I got it.  

[JillSwift]

I understand what you're saying.  This is a boiled-down version of beliefs and the Christian version is based on a clinical view of their texts.  

I think what Joe is saying is that hardly any atheist would stop at that simple of a statement in 99% of the conversations they have with a believer if the believer says what your example states.   Therefore, it does look unbalanced.  

But I got it.   ).