(June 10, 2016 at 1:44 pm)c172 Wrote: Still, this strong feeling expressed by my fellow atheists makes me wonder if it's more the religious nature of most circumcisions that makes atheists feel so strongly against it.
Yeah, must be the religious aspect of it, and not the whole cutting skin (filled with many nerve endings) off a baby without their knowledge and consent. Sure, it might be done during a time he can't remember the pain. That doesn't mean he doesn't feel pain, and it could be a pain that lives with him for the rest of his life, deeply imbedded in the back of his mind. Circumcised infants are known to be more sensitive to pain later in life.
