12.07.2015 Views

ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS
  • No tags were found...

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

without male contribution­ the goddess <strong>is</strong> attributed all the power offecundity. Within femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality myths, sexuality <strong>is</strong> the divineagent through which the universe, earth, and life were created. Thesestories present a lascivious, inordinate goddess who possesses thepower of life and death. In an article within SageWoman, KathyLarson wrote an eroticized version of creation, comparing the earth toa lustful goddess. Her account <strong>is</strong> too graphic to relate but in herarticle she maintains women need to “create new stories in which sex<strong>is</strong> sacred, and women are teachers.” 72Merlin Stone, in her book, When God Was a Woman,suggested that “in the worship of the female deity, sex was Her giftto humanity.” 73 She was, according to Stone, “Goddess of Sexual72Kathy Larson, “Sex Magic: Sacrament of the Goddess,” SageWoman,Summer 1996, http://www.sagewoman.com/samp34_3.htm.73Merlin Stone, When God was a Women (1976; repr., New York:Barnes and Noble, 1993), 154.71

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!