[SoothingDave]

I'm sorry you can't find the validation you are looking for. But looking for it in a dime-store novel may not be the wisest place.

I don't mean to anger or demean you in any way. I wish I had an answer for you. It just seems odd to look for an empowered woman thousands of years before the sexual revolution.

SD

[najida]

I'm not asking for you to do anything. The best thing I ever did for myself is look at the root of my fear and then fight it....being afraid to say "I don't believe, I don't like this God, I don't see the point" for fear of damnation was killing me.

I may be going to hell, but I won't go a liar.

As for looking for empowered women.....they've been there since the dawn of time, and recorded even. As examples and teachers. They just aren't in the Bible.