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Why isn’t a definition of piety as that which is loved by all the gods compatible with the claim that pious things are loved by the gods because they are pious?

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To be religious is to have all the deities love you. But anything that is religious isn't such even though it is liked by the deities; rather, it is beloved by the gods because it is pious, according to Plato's reasoning. God-belovedness is a result of being beloved by the deities, but it is not a result of being adored by the deities.

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