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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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claim the “Adam and Eve story <strong>is</strong> blatant anti­Goddesspropaganda.” 3 The Chr<strong>is</strong>tian concept of original sin, femin<strong>is</strong>tsassert, was instituted by patriarchy and its hierarchical religions thatpay homage to a masculine deity.While femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality rejects the doctrine of originalsin, it advances in its place an “Original Goodness.” Within femin<strong>is</strong>tspirituality, eating the forbidden fruit actually affirmed the firstwoman’s inherent goodness. In the workbook, A God Who LooksLike Me: D<strong>is</strong>covering a Woman­Affirming Spirituality, Patricia LynnReilly retold the story of Eve to accommodate femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality’ssinless Genes<strong>is</strong> account. In th<strong>is</strong> rendition of the story, Eve bidswomen, “Take, eat of the fruit, the good fruit of life.” 4 Eve then tells1992), 51.3Sheryll Hirschberger, “Speaking Honestly About the Goddess,”CapeWomen, Summer/Fall, 1999, 29.4Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me: D<strong>is</strong>covering aWoman­affirming Spirituality (New York: Ballantine Books, 1995), 129.33

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