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    What appears as moral censure of supernatural beings func... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→It is possible for a deity in traditional African religion to issue commands that practitioners consider unethical.

    What appears as moral censure of supernatural beings functions as social-regulatory narrative, not genuine ethical evaluation of divine acts.

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    • 1.Humans cannot coherently apply ethical standards to beings with fundamentally different natures, knowledge, and consequences than human agents.
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    • 2.Religious texts depicting divine punishment use moral language instrumentally to enforce social obedience rather than describe actual wrongdoing.
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    • 3.We distinguish genuine moral criticism from social regulation in other domains; religious discourse should receive the same analytical treatment.
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    • 1.If moral evaluation of divine acts is impossible, the claim itself presupposes standards for assessing what counts as genuine ethics—a self-undermining position.
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    • 2.Social-regulatory narratives can simultaneously function as social control AND constitute authentic moral evaluation; these purposes are not mutually exclusive.
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    • 3.Believers report experiencing genuine moral disapproval of divine actions in scripture, not merely reciting scripts—their phenomenology challenges the dismissal as mere narrative function.
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