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    It is not the case that 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.All moral reasoning develops within some tradition; complete independence is impossible, making the standard incoherently demanding rather than illuminating.
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    • 2.Critical distance from one's formative tradition is achievable through rational reflection without requiring wholesale rejection of its fundamental premises.
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    • 3.Even tradition-internal critique can constitute genuine ethical judgment when it challenges core practices based on coherent moral principles held across contexts.
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    • 1.Moral frameworks developed within religious traditions inherit their foundational assumptions, making internal critique circular rather than truly external.
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    • 2.Genuine ethical independence requires adopting evaluative standards genuinely external to the system being judged, not merely reformist positions within it.
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    • 3.Without such independence, apparent moral censure of divine commands reduces to disputes about proper ritual interpretation or doctrinal consistency.
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