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    A similar problem applies to theistic moral pragmatic arg... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Theistic moral pragmatic arguments face a many-gods-style objection that limits their force to weak rather than strong support for theism.

    A similar problem applies to theistic moral pragmatic arguments insofar as they are intended to provide strong support for theism.

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    Theistic moral pragmatic arguments may face an objection similar to the many-gods objection to Pascal’s wager. The many-gods objection contends that the betting options of the wager are not limited to Christianity and atheism alone, since one could formulate a Pascalian Wager for Islam, certain sects of Buddhism, or for any of the competing sects found within Christianity itself.[4] A similar problem arises for theistic moral pragmatic arguments, at least insofar as those arguments are intende

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