The tearing of the "echad" oneness is depicted in Malachi 2 as producing a "Bloody Garment". Empowerment, Even Unto the Power of Life and Death Once a people decide that “empowerment” includes the right to kill its own children, it has crossed a line from which there is no easy return. In the name of empowering women, our culture has handed the Self a terrible authority: the power of life and death over the most vulnerable, and even many in the church have quietly accepted th