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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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we maintain our full empowerment as Priestesses.” 18Circle of LifeSpiritual femin<strong>is</strong>ts claim female centered, goddessworshiping societies were life­honoring. Ancient women areremembered as peaceful cultivators of life and nature. Th<strong>is</strong> <strong>is</strong> incontrast to men, who, as hunter­gatherers, are said to have beendeath­centered. Th<strong>is</strong> <strong>is</strong> femin<strong>is</strong>t rev<strong>is</strong>ion<strong>is</strong>m at its most dangerous.As unborn children are killed at the ins<strong>is</strong>tence of political femin<strong>is</strong>m,spiritual femin<strong>is</strong>ts claim the moral high ground by assuming anonviolent past, transferring a life­honoring ethos to a deathcenteredpolitical movement. The reality <strong>is</strong> that early agriculturalcommunities were more given to human sacrifice not less.According to a theory put forth by Adolf E. Jensen, “Blood sacrifice18Lady Lee, “Ethics of Abortion: A Witch’s Perspective,” Femin<strong>is</strong>ta!3, no. 3 (1999): http://www.femin<strong>is</strong>ta.com/archives/v3n3/lee.html.96

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