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To: veronica
That is a very good question.

I think it goes to the issue of "longing."

In a culture of immediate gratification, there is something about the story of the "spurned lover."Of "faithfulness" in the story of Hosea, that brings us back to a sense of ourselves.

In a few centuries before Christ, Hosea gave us the imagery of the "unworthy lover", of Gomer, who sold herself into prostitution but was bought back.

As in everything we do in this life, there is an " ideal", that we know that we can never measure up to--and yet, as unworthy as we are, the Archetype exists, innocence meeting innocence- Adam and Eve in Eden. The Innocent Christ, lending His innocence to us.

Eve hid from God in her sin, Eve Ensler is "in your face!

What an opportunity to talk to little ones about the dichotomy between who we are and who we were intended to be...between the people who hide from God, and the people who still seeek to walk with Him...

Never forget that God's goodness is greater than any evil man can devise.

31 posted on 02/11/2007 6:45:25 PM PST by Dutchgirl ([S]tupidity knows no ideology." ---John Fund)
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To: Dutchgirl

One of the talk radio guys had a gal on that runs a group trying to get the Vagina Monologues off the campuses. Students that didn't think it was the right thing to having the school sponser tried to protest but had no power, so its slowly growing against the play. (Using student funds to sponser the play, etc.) And with regards to "free speech", lots of the classes have the play as required viewing with a report, discussion, etc. in class.

It was interesting that this gal was saying how the play (I haven't seen it or heard much about it) seemed to her to be against the feminist movement in that the entire source of "self" for a woman is her private part. Of course all the men in the play are molesters, rapists, or other types of perverts.

In one debate with the author (or someone with the play) the author said something like, "well that's not true, there is Harvey." The gal replied "Granted Harvey doesn't hurt anyone or anything, he just likes to spent hours at a time looking at a woman's private part. Which still seems fairly odd and perverted."


32 posted on 02/11/2007 6:58:16 PM PST by geopyg (Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
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