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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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1995: “We remember the times when our Mother reached for theapple, the moments when she remembered her former glory andrefused to obey. We honor the Mother among us.” 26The forerunntheme of female superiority can be found in contemporaryfemin<strong>is</strong>m. Reilly’s capitalization of “Mother” indicates the sameglorification of Eve as the capitalization of “Life” by Blake.Much like femin<strong>is</strong>m’s early pioneers, within femin<strong>is</strong>tspirituality Eve <strong>is</strong> thought to have shown remarkable courage in theface of adversity. According to today’s femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality mind set,Eve bucked patriarchy when she “heroically” rebelled against herHeavenly Father.Femin<strong>is</strong>ts maintain Eve’s, “direct violation of divinity’sedict ... suggests not evil, but rather an evolutionary step toward26Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me: D<strong>is</strong>covering aWoman­Affirming Spirituality (New York: Ballantine Books, 1995), 125.43

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