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    It is not the case that 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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    Reasons For

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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