The Best Retort for the “Atheists Are Arrogant” Argument

By Daniel Miessler on August 24th, 2008: Tagged as Atheism | Religion

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Let me get this straight. You think the Creator of the Universe cares personally about your life, and that you know, with absolute certainty, what he wants for all of humankind.

I, on the other hand, think that we’re basically alone, not very special, and are just fumbling through our random existence trying to do the best we can.

And I’m the arrogant one?
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  • CHB

    You mean you're a moron who doesn't know that agnosticism and atheism are not mutually exclusive, and that you are actually an agnostic atheist, because you don't claim belief in any said particular faith?

    Keep on chuggin.

  • LSD

    Way to be Exhibit A for the atheist side.

  • Thiago

    Holy cr**. Have you just told what that person is or believes by just reading a two line comment? You're like the best analyst ever. Kudos to you, pal!

  • Thiago

    Holy cr**. Have you just told what that person is or believes by just reading a two line comment? You're like the best analyst ever. Kudos to you, pal!

  • Reroko

    What makes atheists arrogant is that they absolutely know they're right. If they didn't, they'd be agnostic ~ but they're far too caught up “disproving” religion to admit that.

    • http://www.facebook.com/fbIsAStupidPeiceOfCrap Jeffrey Black

      No, Agnosticism is separate from atheism. Agnosticism/gosticism deals with what you know or claim to know. Atheism/theism deals with what you believe. Most atheists (myself included) are agnostics. Most atheists admit they might be wrong, and a god might exist. You don’t get that from most theists, they all “know” they are right, even though they have no evidence on their side. Also, I know I am right God (as defined by the Bible) does not exist, as he is an impossible being. He must be jealous, while never being jealous.

  • Eznight

    So what you are saying is that having knowledge is arrogant. And that studying and finding the irrefutable truth claims of the Bible should just be ignored. Well I don’t know about you but I am glad that not all peoples adhere to this odd philosophy. On the other hand it is VERY interesting that you (atheists) want to indite those who believe in the miracle of creation when all those who believe in evolution (macro) also believe in miracles.

    John Barrow and Frank Tipler in their book “The Anthropic Cosmological Principle” list 10 steps in the course of human evolution. Each of which is so improbable that before it would occur the Sun would have ceased to be a main sequence star and incinerated the earth. And they calculate the probability of the evolution of the human genome to be somewhere between 4 to the -180th power to the 110,000 power and 4 to the -360th power to the 110,000 power. So if evolution (macro) did occur on this planet it was literally a miracle and therefore evidence for the existence of God.

    • Gary

      Quite possibly evidence of something as defined by someone. Therefore without firsthand knowledge of the actual situation, people fill in the blanks. LOTS of blanks, with well, whatever suits them. therefore the ultimate truth may never be known, so by default everyone should be agnostic until the theory can be proven.

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