SimplyAtheistic

I was recently reading a post and a christian (Milton) stated that christians view athiests as an arrogant people. My own mother has called my lack of belief "cocky" and self-righteous. This really sheds light on christianity and its attempts to degrade human achievments. Why do christians WANT to feel like they are so insignificant? Why do you want to feel like you are nothing but a wretched beast? It seems the more athiest pursue true logic and sense, christians attempt to hold us back by labeling us as arrogant. Sad times we live in...
Jake

I ate Pascal's Wafer

I find it interesting that they call us arrogant and self-centered, yet they are the ones who believe that an all-powerful creator of the universe made everything in existence for a few bipedal hominids. It would seem to me that the self-centered person is the person who thinks the infinite creator of all that exists is concerned with whether or not a dumb primate goes to church on Sunday.

I don't know why they want to degrade what humans do. A doctor can spends years in medical school in order to learn his trade, and to (some) Christians it is all praise to God for saving Aunt Emma from her disease.

-Nick

penumbra

I think the title of the thread points it out. It's a self-esteem issue. They want/crave/need such external validation of their worth/existence/purpose. Thus they convince themselves (or allow others to convince them) that some great and wonderful unexplainable supernatural diety approves of them and what they do. Some need it so badly that they can't allow that belief to be successfully challenged or their ego takes too great a shock and the paranoia sets in. So, any challenger must, of necessity, be ignorant or arrogant or uninformed or what-have-you.