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    Challenges→Indigenous African religion cannot serve as the foundation for a coherent moral system derived from divine commands.

    A coherent divine command system requires only that commands be reliably transmitted and practically action-guiding, conditions African oral-traditional religion demonstrably satisfies.

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    Action-guiding(as used in ethics)
    Capable of actually helping someone decide what to do in a real situation, rather than being purely theoretical.
    African oral-traditional religion(an example of a religious system being evaluated)
    Religious practices and beliefs in Africa that are passed down by speaking and storytelling rather than written texts, often involving connection to ancestors and community rituals.
    Reliably transmitted(a requirement for how divine commands must be communicated)
    Consistently and accurately passed along from one person to another without getting lost or changed.
    System(as used in social and political philosophy)
    An organized set of rules, institutions, or processes designed to accomplish a particular goal (like a healthcare system designed to deliver medical care).

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    coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
    A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them
    divine command theory(Ockham's ethics)
    The metaethical view that certain things become morally obligatory, permitted, or forbidden simply because God decrees so

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