Care intelligently for the body
Use health knowledge, rest, exercise, nutrition, and disciplined habits to protect bodily and mental well-being.
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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
Avoid substances that impair health and judgment
Abstain from harmful or irresponsible use of alcohol, tobacco, narcotics, and other intoxicating substances.
Comparative atlas · Original English corpus · Evidence before conclusions
A mapping is not a verified quotation. Workbook labels are preserved. An absent mapping does not mean rejection. We do not rank the moral worth of any system.
- Religious systems
- 1/52
- Nonreligious systems
- 0/41
- Represented systems
- 1/93
- Specific anchors*
- 1/1
1.9%
0.0%
1.1%
100.0%
*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.
Corpus definition
Abstain from harmful or irresponsible use of alcohol, tobacco, narcotics, and other intoxicating substances.
This is the atlas’s definition, not a substitute for a tradition’s own interpretation. Scope, exceptions and translations require review of each source.
Preserved calculation difference
The original index differs from recomputed unique-system or specific-anchor counts. Both are retained; the source file is unchanged.
All Systems: source 94 · recomputed 93
Evidence, mapping by mapping
1 selected mappings
Seventh-day Adventist Christianity · Specific primary/official anchor
Avoid substances that impair health and judgment · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Fundamental Belief 22: abstain from alcohol, tobacco, and irresponsible drug use
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Specific primary/official anchor · Abrahamic / Christian
Framework-level mapping: verify exact doctrinal wording, translation, historical setting, institutional authority, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10545. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
History and geography: source limits
This edition does not supply a historical genealogy or coordinates for this teaching. Transmission, invention, population and geographic presence are not inferred from a mapping.
Explore connections in the same category
Shared systems in the corpus, not evidence of historical influence.
Steward time, abilities, property, and natural resources
Manage personal capacities, possessions, opportunities, and the environment responsibly for service and future well-being.
Choose entertainment that supports moral character
Evaluate media and recreation by their effects on purity, empathy, health, judgment, and constructive relationships.
Unmodified source statistics
| Primary Rank - Religious | 570 |
|---|---|
| Overall Rank | 582 |
| Nonreligious Rank | 510 |
| Religious Frequency Tier | 39 |
| Religions Sharing | 1 |
| Religious Systems | 52 |
| Religious % | 1.9 |
| Nonreligious Groups Sharing | 0 |
| Nonreligious Groups | 41 |
| Nonreligious % | 0 |
| All Systems Sharing | 1 |
| All Systems | 94 |
| Overall % | 1.1 |
| Direct Official Anchors | 1 |
| Direct Evidence % | 100 |
| Cross-Sphere Balance Index | 0 |
| Religious Adoption Gap | 1.9 |
Specialized or emerging teaching