Thanx for agreeing with me. Bottom line: God did NOT condemn circumcision. If it was the HORRIBLE practice that Doc claims, at NO POINT would it have been recommended. Got that?
The point is that circumcision is NOT REQUIRED and is OPTIONAL. The person subjected to circumcision MUST have a choice of accepting it or not.
You make the mistake of thinking that the Old Testament style of circumcision is the same as the modern method using a specially designed clamp. In the old days, a SYMBOLIC portion of skin was removed, now almost the complete foreskin is taken away. What was called circumcision in the Old Testament is not the same as circumcision is today - today the practice is much more destructive.