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    Challenges→Faith in God alone provides happiness

    If non-theistic traditions like Stoicism and Buddhism reliably produce flourishing, theistic faith cannot be a necessary condition for happiness.

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    • 1.Stoicism and Buddhism have produced measurably flourishing practitioners across centuries and cultures.
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    • 2.If X produces flourishing without Y, then Y is not necessary for flourishing (basic logical principle).
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    • 3.Theistic faith makes empirical claims about reality that can be false while still enabling happiness.
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    • 1.Flourishing might require metaphysical truths about meaning that non-theistic systems cannot ultimately ground.
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    • 2.Theistic traditions may produce *deeper* or more stable flourishing than non-theistic ones despite both producing some flourishing.
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    • 3.Non-theistic practitioners might implicitly rely on theistic cultural inheritance or transcendent intuitions they don't acknowledge.
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