THE SEXUALLY ABUSED person is in a war. The enemy is ultimately the Evil One and the path of loyalty to Satan’s vision: rebellion, autonomy, or in other words, sin. The dilemma is that Satan is crafty and his path is often subtle. All sin is felt to be reasonable and justifiable, given the situation, and rarely experienced as malicious or God-dishonoring in its intention. The unkind word or the forgetful lapse of sensitivity appear to be either a minimal
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