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    It is not the case that Moral experience requires interpretive frameworks to identify its object as 'God' rather than conscience, duty, or social pressure.

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    • 1.Some moral experiences report distinctive qualitative features (transcendence, encountering otherness) not reducible to conscience or duty.
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    • 2.If all moral experience requires interpretive frameworks, this applies equally to atheist frameworks, making the claim framework-neutral, not favoring theism.
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    • 3.Historical religious figures reported God-awareness as immediate and pre-reflective, not dependent on post-hoc interpretive work.
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    • 1.Phenomenologically identical experiences (guilt, obligation) require interpretive overlay to distinguish their ultimate source or cause.
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    • 2.Religious traditions provide specific conceptual frameworks that shape how practitioners recognize divine presence in moral experience.
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    • 3.Without interpretive lenses, raw moral feeling remains ambiguous between natural and supernatural origins.
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