(October 14, 2012 at 2:09 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(October 14, 2012 at 2:02 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: It's funny how each side sees each other as arrogant.
It's much easier when one side happens to be right. Though you might have a point; the truth probably lies somewhere inbetween.
I don't actually have a "side", though.
The difference between arrogance and non-arrogance is the difference between seeking and asserting truth.
A person who seeks facts and finds that others who can't admit to being wrong is in fact wrong is not arrogant. A person who asserts the truth because otherwise he would be seen to be wrong is arrogant.
The fact that the two approaches might seem hard to tell apart by shallow idiots who would rather be told than to verify doesn't mean christainity therefore can even theoretically be argued for from a position other than of arrogance. Christianity is always arrogant because it haas nothing that is not arrogant or could be alternatively justified on basis other than pure arrogance.
The other side might be arrogant as well as a point of fact. But their position is at least theoretically capable of being argued thoroughly and soundly from facts and not arrogance.
This is the difference.