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    It is not the case that We do not have a duty to believe in God

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    • 1.If the highest good is a moral obligation, then believing in the conditions that make it possible is itself morally required.
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    • 2.Kant's own practical postulates function as rationally obligatory commitments, not merely optional hypotheses of speculative reason.
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    • 3.A duty to pursue an end entails a duty to adopt the beliefs without which rational pursuit of that end is impossible.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.William James argues in 'The Will to Believe' that withholding belief on live, forced, momentous questions is itself a practical choice with moral stakes.
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    • 2.If theistic belief shapes moral character and virtuous motivation in ways atheistic belief structurally cannot, then cultivating theistic belief may be morally incumbent on rational agents.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Postulating God's existence is a theoretical exercise of reason
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    • 2.Theoretical exercises of reason cannot be morally commanded
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    • 3.Our duty to promote the highest good gives rise only to a need of reason to assume the possibility of the highest good, not a direct duty to believe in God
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