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    It is not the case that It is the duty of the sovereign authority alone to determine how a person is obliged to obey God

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    • 1.Aquinas and the natural law tradition establish that divine law is knowable through reason independently of any political authority.
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    • 2.If moral obligations to God are accessible through natural reason, sovereign declaration cannot be their exclusive source or interpreter.
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    • 3.Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration demonstrates that coerced religious conformity produces no genuine piety, only outward compliance.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Kant's autonomy principle holds that genuine moral and religious duty requires self-legislation through practical reason, not heteronomous command.
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    • 2.A sovereign-defined obligation to God collapses the distinction between civil law and conscience, making Spinoza's own criterion of piety incoherent.
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    • 1.Piety consists in practicing justice and obedience
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    • 2.There is no standard of justice other than the will of the sovereign
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