(October 7, 2016 at 4:45 pm)Rhythm Wrote: @RobE - in regards to the chapter and verse above.
- thus the notably divergent rite of passage. Part of the contract to be included in "the people". At least they knew what their reasons were, and the nature of those reasons, when they did it to their offspring.
We've got people today thinking that they do it to keep their kids from getting an std, which it doesn't..... or because uncut peen is dirty, which it isn't. It;s like they can;t even believe the actual story of how all this dick cutting got started? Why is that, does it just sound ludicrous? Well..agreed..it -is- ludicrous.
@Cath
I don't think that you hold the opinion that you do -because- you're catholic, I think that catholicism provides cultural cover for an irrational and cruel position, just as it has always done, demonstrably, in this specific instance. Not just for you., for us. That's -how- it played into us to become an american tradition. We did it to stop people from being sinful, to combat the filth..which you today conceive of as material dirtiness despite there being none.
I agree, when I read the passage, it had nothing to do with hygiene, unless God was actually a real human being and was actually concerned about his own personal hygiene that he decided to instruct others to do as he does. Either way, why a Christian does it, I have no idea, and again, the hygiene response is just a cop out. There has to be some sort of religious motivation.
