Anonymous
6/12/2025, 10:16:59 PM
No.17758974
>>17758906
People who use that term are adopting the language of a certain ideological viewpoint called syncretism. Syncretism tends to try to minimize the differences between different beliefs and to imply they're all really saying the same thing when they are not. This is a recent trend, and that's why you find people using the neologism now all of a sudden. Historically, and on metaphysical terms, it doesn't make sense to create such a specific grouping, which is why it didn't exist until very recently when people promoting this sort of revisionist agenda appeared. Christianity does not include unitarians, and it doesn't make sense to group them together with unitarians. I mean, maybe if you're a syncretist who wants to merge the major faith traditions and minimize the differences, or if you just follow whatever the atheist books tell you to do, you might decide to use that term but I can't think of another reason. Maybe you know though, is there some special reason why you would focus on Abraham, who is just one historical figure that doesn't figure that prominently, rather than wanting to talk about theism generally? Believing that Abraham existed is not as meaningful of a distinction, or doesn't seem to be for any practical purpose, as believing in God (or not).
People who use that term are adopting the language of a certain ideological viewpoint called syncretism. Syncretism tends to try to minimize the differences between different beliefs and to imply they're all really saying the same thing when they are not. This is a recent trend, and that's why you find people using the neologism now all of a sudden. Historically, and on metaphysical terms, it doesn't make sense to create such a specific grouping, which is why it didn't exist until very recently when people promoting this sort of revisionist agenda appeared. Christianity does not include unitarians, and it doesn't make sense to group them together with unitarians. I mean, maybe if you're a syncretist who wants to merge the major faith traditions and minimize the differences, or if you just follow whatever the atheist books tell you to do, you might decide to use that term but I can't think of another reason. Maybe you know though, is there some special reason why you would focus on Abraham, who is just one historical figure that doesn't figure that prominently, rather than wanting to talk about theism generally? Believing that Abraham existed is not as meaningful of a distinction, or doesn't seem to be for any practical purpose, as believing in God (or not).