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    A morality founded on religion is a necessary concomitant... — Carmelics
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    A morality founded on religion is a necessary concomitant of a revealed religion.

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    • 1.In a revealed religion, what is revealed is elaborate and includes moral principles and ideals as part of the will of God.
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    • 2.A morality founded on religion requires access to the revealed will of God containing moral principles.
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    • 1.Plato's Euthyphro dilemma shows that if acts are good because God commands them, morality becomes arbitrary and contingent on divine will.
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    • 2.A morality that derives its validity from divine command rather than independent moral reasoning lacks autonomous normative grounding.
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    • 3.Revealed religion therefore presupposes rather than grounds moral standards, making religious morality a dependent, not necessary, concomitant.
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    • 1.Kant demonstrated that genuine moral obligation arises from rational autonomy, not heteronomous commands from any external authority, divine or otherwise.
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    • 2.A morality founded on revealed religion substitutes obedience to authority for the categorical imperative, undermining the universalizability required for genuine morality.
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    In a revealed religion, what is revealed is generally elaborate and can be conceived to include moral principles and ideals as part of the will of God thus revealed. A morality that is founded on religion is thus a necessary concomitant of a revealed religion. Since the indigenous African religion is not a revealed religion, there is no way by which the people would have access to the will of God that contains elaborate moral principles upon which a coherent moral system can be erected. In the c
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