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    Acting as if a religious tradition were true includes eng... — Carmelics
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    Acting as if a religious tradition were true includes engaging in its rituals and investing time and money in its associated causes

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    • 1.Rituals and financial investment are characteristic behaviors of religious traditions
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    • 2.Theistic hope provides reason to enact behaviors characteristic of a particular tradition
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    • 1.Ritual participation without genuine belief constitutes a form of bad faith that corrupts both the self and the religious community (Sartre, Kierkegaard).
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    • 2.Authentic religious practice requires the inner transformation that precedes and motivates external acts, not external acts substituting for that transformation.
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    • 1.William James himself distinguished living religious hypotheses from merely acted-upon ones, requiring some prior credence before behavioral commitment is epistemically warranted.
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    • 2.Financial and ritual investment in a tradition one does not believe creates social obligations and identity commitments that systematically distort future epistemic evaluation of that tradition's truth claims.
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    Mill held that one may hope that God exists, but one may not believe that God exists, as the evidence is lacking. Suppose one agrees with Mill, that faith can subsist on hope, trust, or some other non-doxastic attitude other than belief. Suppose further that one seeks to build a theistic commitment on hope. The acceptance of theistic hope provides reason to act as if theism were true, not because one believes that it is true, but because one hopes that it is. What is it to act as if theism is tr
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