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    It is not the case that It is possible for a deity in traditional African religion to issue commands that practitioners consider 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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    • 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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