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/^t/The concept of Satan is also deemed useless and old-fashioned by feminists. They claim the Devil is a bogey created by patriarchal religion because a God without an adversary is inconceivable to the masculine mind. Feminists seem to overlook one point. Without the Devil, Eve would have to take sole responsibility for enticing Adam into eating the fruit and breaking the harmony that had hitherto existed between God and man. If so, women would have been blamed for all the evil in the world, and this would not make their lives easier.