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To: ozoneliar

Oh please. If you told people you were merely gonna have your newborn's ears pierced they'd think you were some kind of freak, yet slicing up your newborn son's genitals is 'normalized' by nothing but barbaric custom.

Way back in the day, Jews did nothing more than snip the tip of foreskin, which is more tantamount to, say, ear piercing. Radical circumcision - i.e., the tearing off of the entire prepuce - did not emerge but for political reasons until after Hadrian's reign during the Late Roman Empire.

Chances are exceptional that Jesus did not have a radical circumcision such as is customary today, because radical circumcision was not a typical custom among Jews in his day.


17 posted on 01/28/2006 7:46:01 PM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv

i think i recently saw a headline saying that circumcision helped protect against HIV infection.

however, there is also the issue of what adult women prefer in their sexual partners.


96 posted on 01/29/2006 8:25:11 AM PST by drhogan
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