Subject: It may be worth mentioning...
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Posted on: 2019-07-24 20:09:00 UTC

... that in at least some religious groups (I'm speaking from experience in the LDS Church), the only person spoken of as performing the tempting is Satan, occasionally as 'the tempter' (though not, to my memory, 'foul tempter'). The idea as presented to me is that everyone needs to watch themselves, because Satan is always out to tempt you into capital-s Sin.

I'm sure the 'particularly women' message is still there, and I know that women and girls are given it rather more heavily (boys get 'avoid temptation', girls get 'avoid being temptation'), but it's not necessarily - as you say - easy to have awareness of.

(Also Eve's choice is cast rather differently, but that's very Mormon-specific, and probably not germane to the conversation at hand.)

hS

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