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    It is not the case that Indigenous African religion cannot serve as the foundation for a coherent moral system derived from divine commands.

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    • 1.Natural law theory, from Aquinas through Grotius, holds that moral knowledge of divine will is accessible through reason and conscience without scripture.
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    • 2.Indigenous African religions systematically invoke a Supreme Being (Olodumare, Nyame, Mulungu) whose moral order is discernible through communal wisdom and natural observation.
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    • 3.If non-revealed rational access to divine moral order suffices for Stoic and Thomistic ethics, the same standard must apply to African religious epistemology.
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    • 1.The supporting argument commits a definitional fallacy by equating 'divine command access' exclusively with Abrahamic textual revelation.
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    • 2.Wiredu, Gyekye, and Menkiti document that African moral frameworks derive normative authority from ancestral precedent understood as ongoing divine communication within community.
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    • 3.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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    • 1.Indigenous African religion is not a revealed religion.
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    • 2.Without a revealed religion, people have no access to the will of God containing elaborate moral principles.
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    • 3.A coherent moral system derived from divine commands requires access to those divine commands through revelation.
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