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All Moral Precepts

Rules of conduct a tradition holds its adherents to, the Five Precepts of Buddhism and the Ten Commandments among the best known examples. Filed as belief because the entry records the rule and its stated grounds, not the practice of keeping it, which would belong under the practice type instead.

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What Defines This Grouping
Rules of conduct a tradition states as binding on its members - commandments, precepts, vows, training rules. Each is given as the tradition frames it, because the force of a rule differs with its frame: a Buddhist precept undertaken as a training rule is not a commandment, and a monastic vow is not a law binding on the laity. 2
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Standing as a Comparative Category
A standard analytic category in the study of religion 2
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Beliefs & Restrictions 1
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The Moral Precepts

This group holds the moral precepts of the traditions, the ethical rules and principles by which a religion directs conduct: commandments, precepts and codes that set out how the faithful should live toward God and one another.

The browser will find the moral precepts the atlas gathers. The entries describe each in its own terms, noting the tradition that teaches it and how it is understood within that tradition.

All Moral Precepts
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Ahimsa in the extreme

Moral Precepts

Antinomian transgression

Moral Precepts

Belief should be proportioned to the evidence

Moral Precepts

Celibacy required of all members

Moral Precepts

Christian pacifism (nonresistance)

Moral Precepts

Community of goods

Moral Precepts

Complex marriage

Moral Precepts

Deed Before Creed: Conduct, Not Belief About God, Is the Ground of Religious Life

Moral Precepts

Dharma: righteous duty

Moral Precepts

Do not kill (First Precept)

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Fasting from dawn to dusk in Ramadan

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Fasting in Lent

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Foot washing as an ordinance

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Free inquiry must not be limited by dogma or authority

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Good thoughts, good words, good deeds

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Harm none (the Wiccan Rede)

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Hitbodedut: Unstructured Personal Prayer Spoken Aloud in Solitude

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Indulgence and rational self-interest

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Kayaka: Labour Itself Is Worship

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Love your neighbor as yourself

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Marriage as a covenant between one man and one woman

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Morality is grounded in human welfare, not divine command

Moral Precepts

Nonviolent direct action as Christian witness

Moral Precepts

Observance of Both Saturday and Sunday as Holy Days

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Observe the Sabbath (Shabbat)

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Outreach to Every Jew Regardless of Observance

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Pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime

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Refusal of the oath

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Religious duty consists in doing justice and loving mercy

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Right conduct of the Eightfold Path

Moral Precepts

The five great vows (mahavratas)

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The full inclusion of LGBTQ people in ordination and marriage

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The Seven Fundamental Tenets

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The state should be secular and neutral among beliefs

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The Ten Commandments

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Weekly observance of the Lord's Supper

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Wu wei (effortless action)

Moral Precepts
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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