religious tenet that the religion's tenets are a generic prescription and anyone may freely violate them if they fully believe what they're doing is better; you will still be punished if caught because getting caught demonstrates your lack of full belief in what you were doing
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Replying to @chaosprime
Hmm, but the religion's tenet are meant to provide the framework for making those moral decisions. Can't override your primary directive, etc. Getting caught is the discovery that you have rogue tenets
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we're accustomed to religions that only have restrictive tenets, but expansive tenets are also possible; a tenet calling to diligently increase your understanding of the world would inherently prescribe development beyond the religion's tenets, not just within them
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A religion that aspired to be a sort of seed or meta morality would be rad, but (and I no expert on religions) it seems to me that we're accustomed to religions claiming exhaustiveness because that's just how they work in practice
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“Mormonism,” so-called, embraces every principle pertaining to life and salvation, for time and eternity. No matter who has it. If the infidel has got truth it belongs to “Mormonism.” -Brigham Young
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