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    If the above is true, it is not that someone who is not [... — Carmelics
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    If the above is true, it is not that someone who is not [both free and rational] should be held responsible for rejecting God

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires agents possess the cognitive capacities to understand what they're rejecting and why.
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    • 2.Freedom and rationality are necessary conditions for meaningful choice between accepting or rejecting any worldview.
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    • 3.Holding those incapable of rational deliberation responsible violates basic principles of fairness in moral judgment.
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    • 1.People can be held responsible for negligence in developing rationality or for willfully avoiding evidence about God.
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    • 2.Responsibility may attach to emotional resistance or motivated reasoning, not solely to abstract rational capacity.
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    • 3.The claim exempts too many people; most possess some degree of freedom and rationality yet remain accountable agents.
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