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    Indigenous African religion is not a revealed religion. — Carmelics
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    Supports→Indigenous African religion cannot serve as the foundation for a coherent moral system derived from divine commands.

    Indigenous African religion is not a revealed religion.

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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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