Where in the original statement is the person dismissing you??????????
This thread is about religious instances of the 'argument from authority', one of the informal fallacies in JamesR's thread over in the General Philosophy forum.
In effect, an appeal to authority is saying -- 'I'm an AUTHORITY! You're not! You must believe whatever I tell you!!'
Of course, a person's boasts about being an 'authority' don't mean that he/she really is one. Lots of people make empty boasts, especially if it raises their own status and bends others to their will. And even if somebody really is an authority about some subject of expertise, that authority doesn't mean that they are omniscient and inerrant about it. Error and confusion might still be present. Nor does expertise guarantee that authorities are telling us the whole story and don't have agendas of their own.
The problem with applying a simple warning about the 'argument from authority' is that there are people out there who really
do know more than we do, about almost everything. Often the most intelligent thing that we can do is simply shut up, listen to them and learn.
So the serious and interesting philosophical problem arising from the 'argument from authority' is -- How do we recognize those who truly are authorities about some subject matter of interest? Who should we be listening to? And... How should we respond intellectually (or spiritually) to authorities once we've identified them?
The only person who would see it as such would be a person so puffed up with self pride that they cannot bear anyone revealing a deficiency in their current state.
Nobody likes that. But sometimes it's a learning experience.
The problem here is typically when people simply boast of their supposed authority WITHOUT their having revealed their superior state [of whatever] or any deficiencies in anyone else's state. In the religious context, there's usually just some hand-waving about how they know God and you don't.
Of course, we don't actually know that there is any "God". And assuming for the sake of argument that there really is, there typically isn't any credible reason to think that the "authoritative" individual knows any more about it than anyone else.
That's why I'd begin by asking the 'authority' to explain what his or her authority consists of and how he/she believes that it was acquired.
I know i am not advanced enough to understand many things about God. But i don't get all precious and react to God by saying He is dismissing me.
The problem isn't God. God keeps his mouth shut. (Probably because he doesn't exist.) The problem is all the people that claim to have been visited by "holy spirits", who have listened to the "voices in their hearts" (or heads), who have read "inerrant scriptures" or who belong to the One True Church. Everyone who struts around with a puffed-out chest and sets themselves up as God's Mouthpiece.
It's like that old British TV show, 'The Prisoner' (a truly amazing existentialist TV program). The big boss was #1. But we never see #1, we never learn (until [maybe] the last episode) who #1 is. All we see is a never-ending succession of #2's, all of whom claim to speak for #1 and claim to be relaying his orders. The analogy is obviously to God (#1) and to the pope, the church, the bible, government rulers, teachers, judges, managers... the list of #2's is endless. All of them adminstering the divine order that everyone (except us, apparently) knows is flowing straight from #1.
The Meek are given wisdom the proud are left to their own thinking. Being told one is lacking is no big deal to one who understands they are lacking.
I don't know that wisdom can come from anywhere but your own thinking. Even when other people teach you things, even when you simply try to memorize whatever they tell you without any criticial thought at all, what you learn still needs to be internalized. People have to come to understand what they're being told. They have to learn how to incorporate it into their own lives.
It is only seen as a dismissal and contempt by someone who is has an overrated view of their own magnificence. Do you think the universe revolves around you?
The problem of this thread arises when other people tell us that the universe revolves around them and their beliefs, and when we are commanded to orbit.
It doesn't work that way. My decisions about what I believe and don't believe are my own decisions. My understanding of whatever I learn and how it meshes with everything else that I know emerges from my own thinking. It can be no other way.