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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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power. Although it would be incorrect to claim that all womeninvolved with femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality hold to th<strong>is</strong> unusual sexualizedaccount of the Fall, many do. Those who do, view the fruit inGenes<strong>is</strong> as a metaphor for sex; the consumption of the forbiddenfruit meant “being” sexual."What?” you may be asking. How has Eve's consumption ofthe forbidden fruit come to mean indulging in forbidden sexuality?When Eve expressed her sexuality, she d<strong>is</strong>covered her sexualprowess and tapped into a source of female power, or so the storygoes. Power that, in spiritual femin<strong>is</strong>ts' minds, patriarchy wants tosuppress. Hence, Eve's sexuality was "forbidden" by men who fearwomen's power. The serpent, according to spiritual femin<strong>is</strong>ts,simply instructed Eve in the pleasures of the flesh. The “Fall” tookplace when Eve was made conscious of her natural sexual identityand experienced it for the first time. They claim the forbidden fruitwas invented to obscure the truth and "keep women in their place.”71

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