Weren’t there others at the time of the Jews that practiced circumcision somehow? I would also state that perhaps the majority of those circumcisions that occur now, are not for religious purposes. As I said before, those who practice it either medically or religiously don’t bother me, they all leave me well enough alone, and I leave them well enough alone. I just don’t see circumcision as a problem in society with my stances on abortion and other issues at stake. The other issue I had was the wicked comic that pretty much portrayed the hero as a Nazi propaganda cartoon would have been done. I am not Jewish, but what they do doesn’t concern me all that much. There’s no “circumcision pride”, no people trying to grill me about it, etc., and I leave them alone.
The costumes in Aristophanes’ comedies invariably included an oversized external leather penis. Those of the Greek characters were uncut. Those of Persians and other foreigners were circumcised. Whether or not this was actually true, it was the perception of Athenian Greeks at the time of the wars between Athens and Sparta, so it must have had some basis.
“I would also state that perhaps the majority of those circumcisions that occur now, are not for religious purposes.”
I was about 11 before I first saw an uncut weiner in the dressing room of a public pool, and those two boys were vastly outnumbered. At least when I was a kid, circumcision was almost universal.