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Quite a number of Christians (including Evangelicals) are “cut” and do observe the practice for religious reasons.


4 posted on 06/11/2011 7:31:28 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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There was a tradition of actual ritual circumcision in the British royal family (supposedly because they are descended from King David). Prince Charles was circumcised by a traditional mohel, but Charles and Di did not continue the tradition with their sons.


7 posted on 06/11/2011 7:39:42 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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Quite a number of Christians (including Evangelicals) are “cut” and do observe the practice for religious reasons.

What groups of Christians circumcise for "religious reasons"?

15 posted on 06/11/2011 7:56:03 PM PDT by Lee N. Field (Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.)
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My grandson was not circumcised until he was 5 years old because his father didn't believe in it. He had one infection after another and it became impossible to retract the foreskin to clean him so surgery was the only recourse.

I was ready to whack his Dad's pee-pee by the time that child healed because of all the pain he went through.

As far as the biblical practice goes... I have heard that the blood clotting factors are optimum at 8 days of age, which makes sense as to why it would be customary for the Jews to wait... instead of doing it right after the birth.

17 posted on 06/11/2011 8:22:00 PM PDT by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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