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    It is not the case that If morality is self-grounding, the postulation of God adds no justificatory work and reduces to a psychological rather than rational necessity.

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    • 1.Moral self-grounding remains unexplained: why should abstract logical truths motivate action or bind rational agents?
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    • 2.God's role as moral foundation may provide justification for moral *realism* itself, not just individual moral facts.
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    • 3.Distinguishing 'psychological necessity' from 'rational necessity' assumes a false dichotomy—human rationality is intrinsically psychological.
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    • 1.If moral truths are logically necessary (like math), they require no external grounding, making God explanatorily redundant.
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    • 2.Appeals to God's will to justify morality face the Euthyphro dilemma: are acts good because God commands them or vice versa?
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    • 3.Psychological comfort from belief in God as moral guarantor differs fundamentally from rational justification of moral facts.
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