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    Challenges→It would be premature to hold that theistic moral pragmatic arguments provide strong support for theism.

    Strong support requires showing that theistic belief alone is necessary for morality or best facilitates moral practice.

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    Theistic moral pragmatic arguments may face an objection similar to the many-gods objection to Pascal’s wager. The many-gods objection contends that the betting options of the wager are not limited to Christianity and atheism alone, since one could formulate a Pascalian Wager for Islam, certain sects of Buddhism, or for any of the competing sects found within Christianity itself.[4] A similar problem arises for theistic moral pragmatic arguments, at least insofar as those arguments are intende

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