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    It is not the case that 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.Practitioners routinely distinguish between divine commands and divine nature, allowing coherent criticism of specific commands as potentially unjust.
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    • 2.Identifying someone with goodness doesn't logically preclude questioning their actions—we do this with moral exemplars constantly.
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    • 3.The claim conflates theological abstraction with lived practice; actual adherents show sophisticated ethical deliberation independent of deity identification.
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    • 1.Mbiti and Idowu's ethnographic work documents African cosmologies where supreme deities are ontologically identified with moral goodness itself.
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    • 2.If a being is definitionally good, logical consistency prevents adherents from simultaneously affirming the being's commands are unethical.
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    • 3.This structural constraint appears empirically present in practitioner discourse across documented African religious traditions.
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