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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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It <strong>is</strong> not enough for femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality to fictionalizecreation accounts or justify sin. Femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality encourages eachwoman to duplicate, in her own life, original sin. According tofemin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality author Kim Chernin, the goddess “presides overour rebirth as women.” 52 Cherin believes the goddess requested Eveeat the forbidden fruit because women “seem to be afraid ofeating.” 53 Eve “knows what woman will become when one day shecreates herself in the image of a goddess.” 54 One way in which awoman “creates herself in the image of a goddess” <strong>is</strong> throughconscious, goddess­centered crafts. In her book, The KnittingGoddess, Deborah Bergman wrote that knitting <strong>is</strong> a means to“connect with the ancient goddesses.” 55 According to Bergman,52Kim Chernin, Reinventing Eve: Modern Woman in Search of Herself(New York: Times Books, 1987), xx.53Ibid.54Ibid., xix.55Deborah Bergman, The Knitting Goddess: Finding the Heart and Soul54

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