Comment on Myths About Circumcision You Likely Believe (pt 1) by Nekromanda
The practice should be banned worldwide, period. It's utterly barbaric. If the religious nuts object, too frikkin' bad, they can just live with it. 
I was never subjected to this idiocy, and when I came to understand what it was all about I thanked my parents for not inflicting it on me.
I was never subjected to this idiocy, and when I came to understand what it was all about I thanked my parents for not inflicting it on me.
Agreed. That's great about your parents - my husband wasn't so lucky, but I suppose that's what happens when people believe the myths. :/
As far as I'm concerned the foreskin evolved for a reason, and I seriously doubt that the reason was so that people could chop it off and use it as an offering to Allah or Jehovah or whatever you call it. How did the child's parents tolerate their helpless infant's screaming in the days before anesthetics? Did they convince themselves that he was screaming with joy because of his sacrifice to the lord? Did they believe that if the child passed out from shock and pain it was because the holy spirit had entered him and he was in a state of enrapturement? And what, precisely, did their god get out of it? Sadistic satisfaction in knowing that people were willing to mutilate their own children to make him happy? Perhaps after the foreskin was desposed of one of his heavenly servants collected them so that the lord could stitch them together to make himself a cloak or an umrella? WHAT RATIONAL PURPOSE DOES THIS PROCEDURE SERVE??? None. Absolutely none. It needs to be banned. 