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    It is not the case that The moral attitudes of practitioners of traditional African religion are independent (autonomous) from the conduct and commands of spiritual beings.

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    • 1.In Akan religious practice, the ontological power of spirits (sunsum) constitutes the very framework within which moral concepts like 'good life' (onipa pa) are intelligible.
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    • 2.When a moral framework's foundational categories are defined by spiritual ontology, moral judgments cannot be autonomous from that ontology even if they appear evaluatively independent.
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    • 3.The extinction of deities from a pantheon confirms spiritual authority structures, not independence from them, since the community acts as custodian of spiritual legitimacy rather than as an external moral critic.
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    • 1.Durkheim and Evans-Pritchard both demonstrated that in traditional societies, moral norms are structurally embedded in religious cosmologies, making conceptual separation of the two analytically misleading.
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    • 2.The Akan concept of 'onyame nhye wo kwan' (what God forbids) shows that divine prohibition and moral wrongness are co-extensive in ordinary Akan moral discourse, not independently derived.
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    • 1.In a non-revealed religious context, the moral character of spiritual messages must be judged by the people themselves on the basis of their own moral insights.
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    • 2.The people evaluate the gods with respect or contempt based on whether the gods deliver results.
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    • 3.Moral disapprobation of deities' actions by the people has led to the extinction of some deities from the Akan pantheon.
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