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    Faith in God alone provides happiness — Carmelics
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    Faith in God alone provides happiness

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    • 1.Theistic commitment alone results in happiness
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    • 2.All other causes and commitments are too small to fill the existential void in human lives
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    • 1.William James argued that religious experience is valid pragmatically only when it produces verifiable fruits in lived experience, not through doctrinal exclusivity.
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    • 2.Empirical studies (e.g., Seligman's positive psychology) identify meaning, mastery, and relationships as sufficient happiness-producing conditions without requiring God.
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    • 3.P2's 'existential void' assumes an Augustinian anthropology that non-theists are not obligated to accept without independent justification.
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    • 1.Aristotle's eudaimonia requires cultivated virtues, friendship, and civic participation — none of which presuppose theistic commitment.
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    • 2.If non-theistic traditions like Stoicism and Buddhism reliably produce flourishing, theistic faith cannot be a necessary condition for happiness.
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    The argument suggested in fragment #148 is that faith in God alone provides happiness, as theistic commitment alone results in happiness; while all other causes and commitments are chimera too small to fill the hole in our lives. While Pascal wrote of happiness, his argument might be re-focused toward meaning in life, perhaps by arguing that a genuinely or truly happy life will be a meaningful life. Would the existence of God make our lives meaningful? In this context “meaning in life” is a life
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