On Humility and Entitlement

A common attack on the character of Atheists and self- pronounced secular people has to do with their lack of humility, otherwise labeled: arrogance. The arrogance to defy the God that gave them everything (wished for or not); the arrogance to trust their own human mind to grasp reality, to make “right” and “wrong” judgments, to criticize religious teachings and religious authority.

Non-believers are hence accused of feeling entitled to those verbalizations and behavior for which they do NOT deserve according to the devout. 

Which made me wonder about the kinds of entitlements “humble piety” entails: 

Those who win the lottery, who get out alive from car accidents, shootouts,  wars, calamities involving casualties, feeling that they are “better” people, hence more entitled to have been saved than the less fortunate; 

Creationists who believe that the universe was created for them, other forms of life being mere instruments for Man’s pleasure;

Nations and sects feeling entitled for a preferential treatment by God as ”chosen people” entitled to guide and control other lives, define their roles, their diet, sex and family-life;

Or entitled to God’s blessing (“God Bless America”, or “god bless my team, not the other”);

Fundamentalists who feel entitled to a piece of land, to a “holy” city, or  to take lives and blow away building and school-buses of those who are not entitled to live or to own that land or city;

Huge real estate properties feeling entitled to public services without paying their share of the cost (taxes);  

The list is longer, but above all I am impressed by the devout entitlement to claim that the above conduct is in line with TRUE morality, without having to provide any reasoning or shred of evidence beyond stating the entitlement as a fact.