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    Supports→It is possible for a deity in traditional African religion to issue commands that practitioners consider unethical.

    If human moral standards are independent of divine commands, then a divine command could conflict with those standards and be judged unethical.

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    I define spirituality as a heightened form of religiosity reached by certain individuals in the community who have, or claim to have, mystical contacts with the supernatural, the divine. It would be correct to assert, however, that the encounters are the results, rather than the sources, of religion in Africa in the traditional setting. And, even though ‘spiritual messages’ may be received by the practitioners of traditional African religion through those mystical encounters part of which (‘mess

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