Life isn't about how smart you are

[jstrodel]

David Hume was aware of the vanity of thinking too highly of his own intelligence, and wrote about this somewhere I can't remember. So was Stephen J Gould, during a Simpsons episode he asked to have a section removed where his mind was given a place of honor.

Humility is a virtue that will aid understanding.

Intelligence and humility are two different things...

Based on my old self, I think your endgame is a subtle agressive technique I used to use to lower atheists' guard. Make them realise that thinking too much isn't going to get you into heaven because it's what keeps you away from knowing God. Am I on the right track?

Christianity is true, so to teach virtue's of knowing is to strengthen my position

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Life isn't about how smart you are

Life is about.... what?

I can't imagine any word that follows that sentence that would make it correct.... maybe a huge string of words would give us a decent view of life...
but then you have billions of different life forms... each with their own huge string of qualifiers.

My life is not about the same things that your life is.

It is the same. We are made of the same genetics. Pride will hurt you just as much as it will hurt me.

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Trying to compensate?

There are some atheists that impress me, but the average atheist seems to me to be either in the 16-25 range, or has some sort of middle class technology job where he makes $40,000 as a systems analyst and cannot grasp subtle linguistic or philosophical analysis but simply repeats another argument from authority thinking he is using real logic.

I have met way more people like that then I have met PhD astrophysicists.

Everyone knows that guys who make $40,000 as systems analysts in mediocre IT firms are not the smartest people in the world.