Is incredible arrogance a byproduct of Intelligent Design?

Question

“All people who worship, worship God. By definition.”
Or is incredible arrogance simply the product of a naïve and insecure group?

Answer 1

I see your point but, I don't believe in intelligent design, I do believe that god made "all things" and we don't understand "all things" so why worry about it ,


even though the bible is full of contradictions, it was written by god and translated by man, in that translation there were most definitely omissions, edits, as well as deletions that's why we are so confused and all sects of Christianity claim to be the right sect, The only sect, as well as the way to heaven

My personal belief is simple:

have faith, be humble and respectful of others, try not to judge, pray,repent, try to do as much good as you can in his name as often as possible, tell others and learn more about him and all will be fine

Answer 2

Here's a great example, which the 'Godly' will call 'arrogance', I neither worship anything whatsoever, further I deplore the whole business of 'worshipping'.

Can anyone explain why an omnipotent being would feel so insecure as to need to create little clones of itself for the sole purpose of telling it how great it is ???

I go for the 'naive and insecure' bit, but bear in mind that these people have been subjected forntheir entire lives to a range of conditioning factors that are incredibly hard to overcome. Remember the old Jesuit canon, "Give me a boy until the age of four years, and I will give you a 'Catholic' for life !"

Answer 3

No, incredible arrogance is engendered by a moment of primal, existential panic at being alone, followed by abstract projection of (idealized) self on another object in order to relieve the terror; this object, deified, becomes the God, and then arrogance is fueled by recognizing the resemblance until it exceeds all semblance of reason and/or sanity.

Tuam tat asi.

Answer 4

Arrogance is the product of the worship of one's self, which can be found under all titles and names. Some call themselves Christian but act no different than an unbeliever and some unbelievers act better than one who professes to believe. Arrogance knows no political, religious, scientific boundaries. It comes in all forms, ages, sizes, colors, sexes, etc. It can be disguised as pious, intelligent, rational, religious, irreligious, theist, atheist, deist, pantheist, etc.

Answer 5

It comes across as arrogance. Every religious person is a salesperson of their own particular belief system. They're in competition with other belief systems. The consumers that buy their product are people with the minimum required amount of religion receptors in their minds. Hang on, I just thought of another analogy; religious people are like fishermen. They cast their lines into the ocean, they bait their hooks with a promise of eternal life...the fish of course, are people susceptible to the influence of religion. That analogy falls short because there's not only bait in the form of a promise of something nice, there's a threat of something nasty if the fish don't take the bait. That's not how fishing works....my analogy producing software is malfunctioning tonight.

Answer 6

"Incredible arrogance" is a byproduct of human sinfulness, which is against the creative plan of the God of Intelligent Design.
I disagree with the quote, however. There are those who worship other than the true God. Life should make that quote true, but, alas, it is not.
Accepting and worshipping the one true God in heaven is NOT arrogant or naive or insecure. Those who do know that in His presence, they should be humble, wise and secure in who He is and what He has done for us, for now and for eternity.

Answer 7

Incredible arrogance is a product of religious bigotry and extremisim. Intelligent design is just a by-product, not a cause.

Answer 8

I think you may have that backwards... To me incredible arrogance is a byproduct of ignorance and being self indulgent.

Answer 9

Arrogance is not the result of Intelegent design it is the result of a fallen world. Looking at other nations that are not christian.. aka muslim or pagan there are many people who are ignorant and do not accept other people's faiths or lack of.

Answer 10

No our arrogance is an evolutionary by product back in the days when some cave bloke told you there was a nice mammoth corpse and when you came back from not finding a mammoth he was shacked up with your cavelady.