Bust Nak wrote: ↑Wed Aug 17, 2022 5:02 am
historia wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:35 pm
If you agree with that, then would you also agree that, on a forum like this one, where the question of God's existence is regularly debated and the distinction between various stances on that question are meaningful, it would be disadvantageous to collapse two different positions under a single term?
I don't agree, since here we are debating arguments for/against Christianity, the 'unsure' would also side with the 'no.'
But so would the 'yes' who just aren't Christians, like Jews or Muslims.
The terms 'atheist' and 'agnostic' are meant to articulate ones position with regard to the proposition of God's existence. Collapsing them under one label so as to group those people together when evaluating
other propositions, like whether Christianity is true or not, seems dubious when we already have labels that more accurately group people together on these other questions, like 'non-Christian', for example.
Also, not every discussion on this forum is
strictly for/against Christianity, like the broad question of whether God exists, or, you know, this thread. In many of those discussions, the distinction between atheism and agnosticism remain important, as you already agreed.
So I don't see a compelling reason in your responses to collapse them together.