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Atheism and arrogance (view source)
Revision as of 05:07, February 9, 2015
, 05:07, February 9, 2015→Pride, atheism and satanic deception
*[[LaVeyan Satanism]] (non-theistic and atheistic form of Satanism).
*[[LaVeyan Satanism]] (non-theistic and atheistic form of Satanism).
== New Atheist arrogance and drug addiction ==
[[File:Richard Dawkins pic.jpg|alt=Richard Dawkins|thumbnail|260px|right|The atheist Chris Arnade wrote: "I also see [[Richard Dawkins]] differently. I see him as a grown up version of that 16-year-old kid, proud of being smart, unable to understand why anyone would believe or think differently from himself. I see a person so removed from humanity and so removed from the ambiguity of life that he finds himself judging those who think differently.<ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/24/atheism-richard-dawkins-challenge-beliefs-homeless ''The people who challenged my atheism most were drug addicts and prostitutes''], ''The Guardian'', Tuesday 24 December 2013 09.40 EST</ref>]]
See also: [[Atheism and drug addiction]] and [[Atheism and alcoholism]] and [[Abrasiveness of Richard Dawkins]] and [[Liberal elite]]
The atheist Chris Arnade wrote ''The Guardian'' article ''The people who challenged my atheism most were drug addicts and prostitutes''
{{cquote|Soon I saw my atheism for what it is: an intellectual belief most accessible to those who have done well.
I look back at my 16-year-old self and see Preacher Man and his listeners differently. I look at the fragile women praying and see a mother working a minimum wage custodial job, trying to raise three children alone. Her children's father off drunk somewhere. I look at the teenager fingering a small cross and see a young woman, abused by a father addicted to whatever, trying to find some moments of peace. I see Preacher Man himself, living in a beat up shack without electricity, desperate to stay clean, desperate to make sense of a world that has given him little.
They found hope where they could...
I also see [[Richard Dawkins]] differently. I see him as a grown up version of that 16-year-old kid, proud of being smart, unable to understand why anyone would believe or think differently from himself. I see a person so removed from humanity and so removed from the ambiguity of life that he finds himself judging those who think differently.
I see someone doing what he claims to hate in others. Preaching from a selfish vantage point.<ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/24/atheism-richard-dawkins-challenge-beliefs-homeless ''The people who challenged my atheism most were drug addicts and prostitutes''], ''The Guardian'', Tuesday 24 December 2013 09.40 EST</ref>}}
[[Image:St Paul Preaching.jpg|right|thumb|250px|St. [[Paul]] defends his preaching (Giovanni Ricco)]]
The [[Apostle Paul]] wrote:
{{cquote|For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but [[God]] has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, But by His doing you are in [[Jesus Christ|Christ Jesus]], who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,so that, just as it is written, "LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD." (1 Corinthians: 26-31 (NASB)}}
Paul wrote concerning drunkards and becoming free of enslavement to a drunken lifestyle:
{{cquote|Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [a]effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. - I Corinthians 6:9-11 (NASB)}}
== See also ==
== See also ==