Arrogance, Religion, and Respect.

So let's get something straight. You can be a Nobel laureate and if you're religious I'm still going to think you're weak minded. A view that has had me labelled as arrogant recently. As if my feeling like that implies I consider myself superior. Which is not the case more than it is. You see, I can admire someone for one reason, yet be sickened by another. I can admire a nurse for their compassion but be sickened by their racism for example. Complexity is not a vice. So I can think you're an idiot for crediting your successes to something divine, whilst admiring those successes none the less. But being called an arrogant athiest made me think. Is there anything more arrogant than someone with faith? To dismiss the knowledge of generations of thinkers, just on the basis of something you learned to believe?