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

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    • 1.The behavior of supernatural beings is subject to human moral censure.
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    • 2.Human moral standards operate independently of divine commands.
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    • 3.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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    • 1.In many traditional African religious frameworks, the deity's will constitutes the very ground of moral order, making 'unethical divine command' a category error.
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    • 2.What appears as moral censure of supernatural beings functions as social-regulatory narrative, not genuine ethical evaluation of divine acts.
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    • 3.Mbiti and Idowu both document that African supreme deities are typically identified with goodness itself, structurally precluding practitioners from coherently labeling their commands unethical.
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    • 1.The independent moral standards invoked to judge divine commands are themselves derived from communal life shaped by religious practice, undermining their claimed independence.
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    • 2.Without genuine normative independence from the religious tradition, human moral censure of deities reflects internal ritual critique, not external ethical judgment of divine commands.
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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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