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Circumcision
#11
RE: Circumcision
(July 20, 2017 at 8:49 am)Die Atheistin Wrote: I was wondering, how did circumcision become a religious practice?

I don't know but to this day I can't walk into a barber shop and say "just take a little off the top."

Thanks, mom.
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#12
RE: Circumcision
anyone else remember the episode of Bizarre Foods where Andrew Zimern feared he might have to eat the 'anchovy' ??


Classic moment of TV history. And grandpa got to eat it . . .
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#13
RE: Circumcision
Okay, lets get it over with: who here wants to snip their boy baby's penis causing him unimaginable pain and leaving perhaps 3% of the sexual pleasure he'd have otherwise had going forward? Who here is for male genital mutilation? (Don't look at mine, I'm horrible.)
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#14
RE: Circumcision
So, we're not going to talk about how it became a religious practice? Smile
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#15
RE: Circumcision
That convo is a short one, about a small subset of circumcisees (lol).  It's entirely common for a tribe to practice a form of ritual mutilation.  It likely developed from a consensual rite of passage, but by the time we have any written indication of the practice in jewish culture it had already been mythologized.  The purpose, however, remained clear; it was an announcement that the boy belonged to the tribe, and that any boy who was not circumcised, did not - he would be "cut off from his people".
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#16
RE: Circumcision
It was done to ancient Egyptian priests, and perhaps even has older roots, more of a "marking" way.

Ancient Israelis might had picked it from contact with Egyptians in the past; it kinda makes sense because if it was a mark for priests in that society.
Personally; it's not like I agree to it.

Nobody knows how it started. But it's not effective against masturbation; I assure you.
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#17
RE: Circumcision
(July 20, 2017 at 11:15 am)Losty Wrote: Oh gee a circumcision thread. This should be fun

I'm circumspect.
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#18
RE: Circumcision
A deve got caught collecting them (foreskins) in some ancient third world shit hole thousands of years ago and when confronted about his weird and annoying fetish, he cleverly announced God told him to, and then as now, there were enough compulsively gullible twits within earshot to fall for his otherwise lame ass excuse and there we have the birth of yet another bizzaro religious practice.

I suppose we are lucky no one has ever similarly contrived any religious significance to vomit . . . .
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#19
RE: Circumcision
(July 20, 2017 at 11:36 am)Whateverist Wrote: Okay, lets get it over with: who here wants to snip their boy baby's penis causing him unimaginable pain and leaving perhaps 3% of the sexual pleasure he'd have otherwise had going forward?  Who here is for male genital mutilation?  (Don't look at mine, I'm horrible.)

I do.
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#20
RE: Circumcision
(July 20, 2017 at 12:02 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: A deve got caught collecting them (foreskins)  in some ancient third world shit hole thousands of years ago and when confronted about his weird and annoying fetish, he cleverly announced God told him to, and then as now, there were enough compulsively gullible twits within earshot to fall for his otherwise lame ass excuse and there we have the birth of yet another bizzaro religious practice.

I suppose we are lucky no one has ever similarly contrived any religious significance to vomit . . . .

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