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    It is not the case that Whether Abraham was legitimately obeying God or was a deluded would-be murderer must be decided as a matter of individual religious faith

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    • 1.Moral obligations against child murder are rationally accessible and override claimed divine commands, as Kant argued in 'The Conflict of the Faculties'.
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    • 2.A command requiring an agent to violate universalizable moral law cannot be authenticated as divine, regardless of subjective religious conviction.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Public reason can establish that no epistemic criterion reliably distinguishes genuine divine command from psychotic delusion in first-person experience.
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    • 2.When individual faith cannot be distinguished from delusion by any intersubjective standard, defaulting to individual judgment maximizes harm risk rather than resolving it.
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    • 1.Public reason cannot decide whether Abraham's act was legitimate obedience to God or murderous delusion
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    • 2.When public reason cannot resolve a question, individuals must decide for themselves
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