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    It is not the case that It is more appropriate to say that we feel religious emotions towards the universe because we think the universe is divine, rather than that the universe is divine because we feel religious emotions towards it.

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    • 1.The subjectivist view grounds divinity in our emotional reactions.
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    • 2.Grounding divinity in emotional reactions puts the explanatory relationship backwards.
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    • 3.The more plausible explanatory order runs from a prior belief in the universe's divinity to the subsequent emotional response.
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