(July 20, 2017 at 8:49 am)Die Atheistin Wrote: I was wondering, how did circumcision become a religious practice?
Most likely as an addition to the other sex-based prohibitions that come from religion, to weaken the sex organ and diminish the pleasure experienced so as to prevent as much fornication and adultery as possible, one would imagine. I mean, look at what you were supposed to do to an unruly child; if you can be convinced to kill your own disobedient little brat, what's a bit of foreskin removal?
Also if you're supposed to be the chosen race, well, they need a way to haze you so you can earn your way in, and to identify you as one of them, and what's more distinguishing (and would discourage adult-aged imitators) than that?
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
