[CarrotAndStick]

It's a wonder any ancient civilization other than the Jews...

It goes much before the Jews...something prehistoric, is what I read. Stone-tools and things like that...

I wonder how the first one was done, and the parties involved, "convinced"?

[sully777]

I wonder how the first one was done, and the parties involved, "convinced"?

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babies have no choice. Children may have pain but rarely remember. Adults probably drank some locally produced intoxicant for days. No wonder the Hebrew scriptures dictate the 8th day...which BTW is when a baby's blood coagulates quicker, according to the doctors that performed the operation on my boy. Mazol Tov!

[Paco]

It's my understanding that this is why the Romans became Catholic Christians and not Jews, because Constantine couldn't "sell" circumcision to the men.