[Ahimaaz Smith]

Re: I Have Sinned Against Yee!

Is it safe to use the other salutaions I like from that inspirational work, The Handmaid's Tale? "Under His Eye" and "May the Lord Open"? (The first reminds them that the omnipresent God is always watching, and the second is a hope for fertility and conception.)

Certainly the sentiments are correct:

Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy.... Psalms 33:18

And the Lord so wanted us to be fruitful and multiply that he told us TWICE in Genesis 9:

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Genesis 9:1

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. Genesis 9:7

As for any specific phrases, that's a question you should take up with a Landover Pastor or Deacon. If they certify a statement to be Satan-free, that's good enough for me.

I'm sorry to go on so much about a secular work, and yet the story really makes great strides in addressing The Woman Question.

It sounds like this book has some good Biblical ideas on the role of women. Nevertheless, there is no substitute for the original. If you seek to know the place of women in society, you could do worse than reading the Book of Titus, which enjoins women:

to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Titus 2:4-5