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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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the Fall in the garden, there was no need for salvation. It was notEve or her action that caused salvation. It was God in h<strong>is</strong> mercy whoprovided unmerited salvation through H<strong>is</strong> only begotten Son, <strong>Jesus</strong>Chr<strong>is</strong>t.Femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality promotes a belief that women possesswithin themselves a “saving and sustaining power” 49 and do notneed to look “to men or male figures as saviors.” 50 If <strong>Jesus</strong> Chr<strong>is</strong>t <strong>is</strong>acknowledged at all within femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality he <strong>is</strong> regarded as a“child of a divine Mother,” 51 not the <strong>Savior</strong> of mankind.Biting the Apple49Carol P. Chr<strong>is</strong>t, “Why Woman Need the Goddess: Phenomenological,Psychological, and Political Reflections,” in Womanspirit R<strong>is</strong>ing: AFemin<strong>is</strong>t Reader in Religion, eds., Carol P. Chr<strong>is</strong>t and Judith Plaskow,273­286 (New York: HarperSanFranc<strong>is</strong>co, 1979).50Ibid.51Riane E<strong>is</strong>ler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our H<strong>is</strong>tory, Our Future(New York: HarperSanFranc<strong>is</strong>co, 1987),102.53

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