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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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happiness commensurate with h<strong>is</strong> own natural ability, rather thanremaining an eternal recipient of divine care packages. ‘He’ wasproud and independent, valuing ‘h<strong>is</strong>’ own nature.” 77Th<strong>is</strong> reads as an attempt to reframe the nature of sin. Basedon the sum of Daly’s writings, women are seduced into believingthat the Fall and expulsion from the garden represent emancipationfrom “divine care packages” and sin <strong>is</strong> empowerment. Through th<strong>is</strong>retooling of the creation story, women are encouraged to embracethe spirit of “independence” the serpent has come to represent.Femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality teaches women the snake from thegarden, “<strong>is</strong> very good” 78 and the Fall was vital for human (or moreprec<strong>is</strong>ely, female) evolution. As one author put it, “Yes, Adam and77Ibid., 190.78Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me: D<strong>is</strong>covering aWoman­affirming Spirituality (New York: Ballantine Books, 1995), 128.65

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