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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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may commercialize femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality not out of devotion butsimply because it sells. And a woman who <strong>is</strong> unaware of femin<strong>is</strong>tspirituality may nevertheless live it. When the term femin<strong>is</strong>tspirituality <strong>is</strong> used in th<strong>is</strong> book, it does not necessarily confer aconscious religious affiliation.Within femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality, concepts of the goddess vary.She <strong>is</strong> sometimes imagined as an impersonal force but more often asa personal deity. The goddess <strong>is</strong> worshiped as the Goddess. Othertimes she <strong>is</strong> worshiped as a specific goddess, one of various femaledeities. For the purpose of th<strong>is</strong> book, I will refer to the goddess whenspeaking of any of the goddesses worshiped within femin<strong>is</strong>tspirituality. The goddess <strong>is</strong> also considered a psychological archetypefor women. As a result, a woman does not have to believe in asupernatural being to practice femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality. According to itspromoters, since a woman’s awareness of her own power <strong>is</strong>magnified through goddess worship, even an athe<strong>is</strong>t can venerate the

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