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    It is not the case that If properly basic beliefs about God can arise from religious experience with epistemic legitimacy, then moral grounding is neither necessary nor the primary foundation for rational theistic belief.

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    • 1.Religious experiences vary dramatically across traditions and contradict each other, undermining claims to reliable epistemic legitimacy.
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    • 2.Properly basic beliefs require defeasibility conditions and public verification criteria that subjective experiences cannot satisfy alone.
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    • 3.Moral arguments provide intersubjective rational grounds that experiential claims cannot match, making them foundationally more reliable.
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    • 1.Religious experiences produce phenomenologically vivid, psychologically compelling encounters that can justify belief without additional argumentative support.
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    • 2.Moral arguments for God's existence are historically contested and philosophically controversial, unlike direct experiential warrant.
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    • 3.If sensory experiences ground perceptual beliefs without requiring independent justification, religious experiences merit equal epistemic status.
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