RE: Life isn't about how smart you are
March 5, 2013 at 3:03 pm
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2013 at 3:07 pm by Darkstar.)
(March 5, 2013 at 2:44 pm)jstrodel Wrote: No, I don't. Being showy and arrogant is different from being proud. To be proud means to direct your life energies towards selfish pursuits, proving your intellect, careerism, etc.So...what is this "proving your intellect" then, if it isn't arrogance? Is doing well on tests in school "proving your intellect" and therefore destructive?
(March 5, 2013 at 2:44 pm)jstrodel Wrote: This is antithetical to true learning.I'm guess ing your definition of true learning is letting god guide you, or something along those lines.
(March 5, 2013 at 2:44 pm)jstrodel Wrote: It is extremely destructive. It leads people to think because they have mastered one subject in one way, that they know everything.It does? Why do we need resumes if everyone claims to know everything? People get specific degrees, certifiyong that they know that particular field, not that they know everything. I'm sure some people think they know everything, but I think arrogance would better describe that than pride.
Quote:Such beautiful irony
(March 5, 2013 at 2:44 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Is it ironic to see the greatest intellectual ferment in history coming out of a Christian civilization that values truth very highly? I don't see what is ironic about that at all.1. I mean stuff like this:
(March 5, 2013 at 2:44 pm)jstrodel Wrote: It is authoritarian, because they will tend to want to enforce their understanding on others because of their pride. Pride is much deeper and more destructive than being arrogant.Because religion doesn't want to force its understanding.
2. Just because some of the founders were Christian doesn't make this a Christian nation.
(March 5, 2013 at 2:44 pm)jstrodel Wrote: I think what is ironic is when atheists find the most questionable ministries e.g. Kent Hovind and they take a weak opponent and call that person the epitome of Christianity, meanwhile ignoring the fact that the entire atheist movement owes its existence to the culture of the universities that Christians founded.The people who founded them happened to be Christian. So? Does the bible say "thou shalt found universities of higher learning"?
I don't think their being Christian was a deciding factor in the founding of said universities.
(March 5, 2013 at 2:44 pm)jstrodel Wrote: And then, on top of that, they call themselves free thinkers or complain about Christians ideological prejudices, when they themselves have just intentionally removed from vision all the serious exponents of Christianitiy.Like who? (In all seriousness, who did you have in mind?)
It is often that the loudest, most radical and bigoted people are the ones adhering most closely to the bible (OT in particular).
(March 5, 2013 at 2:44 pm)jstrodel Wrote: 55% of scientists are Christians, not that there is anything especially special about their being Christians and a great deal of science takes place at organizations that were founded to be Christian.
Fixed.
And what do you mean by "to be Christian"? What is Christian about science? Christians supported science as a mean to understanding "creation" at first, but got angry when it contradicted the bible (just ask Galileo).
EDIT: By the way, I think your 55% is high.
This is from a Christian news agency. The article seems biased, but I don't see why the statistics would be.
