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    It is not the case that If the only coherent theological content derives from practical reason—moral ideals, rational teleology—then 'God' names a regulative ideal of human reason, not a transcendent entity.

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    • 1.Religious experiences report encounters with alterity and agency that resist reduction to human ideals or rational projections.
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    • 2.Practical reason itself requires grounding—regulative ideals need justification, which may require appeal to transcendent ground.
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    • 3.Calling God merely regulative begs the question: it assumes naturalism and redefines theism rather than refuting it on its terms.
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    • 1.Metaphysical claims about transcendent entities lack empirical verification and remain perpetually underdetermined by evidence.
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    • 2.Moral and rational ideals demonstrably motivate human behavior and ground ethical systems without requiring supernatural referents.
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    • 3.Kant showed that practical reason can generate binding obligations independently of theoretical knowledge about God's existence.
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