Ryan McAvoy said:

darth_ender said:

I daresay I am smarter than many atheists. But I also try to maintain a sense of humility

Not the best constructed set of words Ender ;-)

Yeah, I knew that'd be controversial. Let me rephrase. I am confident that I am genuinely more intelligent than, say, 70% of the world, atheists and theists alike. But in spite of what is above average intelligence, I also know there is much to learn from everyone, and I try not to let what I believe is likely factual interfere with the equally factual truth that I can learn something from everyone, even those perhaps less intelligent, and definitely from those who disagree.

darth_ender said:

There seems to be this arrogance that fills the hearts of so many of them... that somehow they are smarter than their foolish theistic peers.

God cannot be proved, he/she just has to be literally "Taken on faith", so I think some non-believers see that as a foolish thing. But they are forgetting that God can't be disproved either. So it's not about intelligence, it's about belief.

I understand that atheists have a hard time taking things on faith. But there are so many who consider even the possibility ignorance, while in fact doing that very same thing when they hear their professor say that some brilliant scientists did some research that proves something amazing. Did they do the research? Did they even read about it firsthand? No, too many atheists are condescending ignoramuses.