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    Challenges→Knowledge of God rooted in moral experience does not require a moral argument

    The specific content 'moral lawgiver' or 'divine ground of obligation' is a theoretical posit, not a brute datum of moral phenomenology.

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    • 1.Moral phenomenology (guilt, obligation) feels immediate but doesn't inherently reveal its metaphysical ground.
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    • 2.Different cultures posit radically different moral lawgivers, suggesting the content is culturally constructed, not universally given.
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    • 3.We can explain moral motivation psychologically without positing divine foundations, making them theoretical additions rather than observations.
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    • 1.The sense of objective moral obligation itself—its bindingness—seems like a brute phenomenological fact, not a derived theoretical posit.
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    • 2.Distinguishing 'brute datum' from 'theoretical posit' requires an unclear epistemology; phenomenology already includes structured intentional content.
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    • 3.Religious believers report immediate experience of divine presence in moral deliberation, making it phenomenologically given, not merely posited.
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