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Phat
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Message 16 of 98 (720603)
02-25-2014 10:46 AM
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02-25-2014 10:39 AM


Re: Hacks
Lifespans were not all that long back then. Maybe someone had the bright idea to notice that women got infected a lot after having had sexual relations and that ...upon observation....men had dirty organs. Surely the nobler castes realized that in order to preserve their lineage, something would have to be done with that diseased organ. So they took off the extra flesh.
Lemme see what the internet has to say....
Wiki writes:
About one-third of males worldwide are circumcised.[1][16] The procedure is most prevalent in the Muslim world and Israel (where it is near-universal), the United States and parts of Southeast Asia and Africa; it is relatively rare in Europe, Latin America, parts of Southern Africa and most of Asia.[1] The origin of circumcision is not known with certainty; the oldest documentary evidence for it comes from ancient Egypt.[1] Various theories have been proposed as to its origin, including as a religious sacrifice and as a rite of passage marking a boy's entrance into adulthood.[19] It is part of religious law in Judaism[20] and is an established practice in Islam, Coptic Christianity and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.[1][21][22]
So is there any current evidence that uncircumcised men...today...are a greater health risk?

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vimesey
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Message 17 of 98 (720606)
02-25-2014 10:53 AM
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02-25-2014 10:46 AM


Re: Hacks
So is there any current evidence that uncircumcised men...today...are a greater health risk?
The capacity of the uncircumcised two thirds, to do their part in sustaining two thirds of the world's population, suggests not ;-)

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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Diomedes
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Message 18 of 98 (720607)
02-25-2014 10:55 AM
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02-25-2014 10:39 AM


Re: Hacks
God's a bloke, right? No way would he have got the design of the dick wrong. (And so small...)
Follow-up question: if god created man in his own image, does god still have his foreskin?

"Our future lies not in our dogmatic past, but in our enlightened present"

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vimesey
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Message 19 of 98 (720609)
02-25-2014 11:00 AM
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02-25-2014 10:55 AM


Re: Hacks
Very good point !
And if He hasn't, just imagine the bragging rights you'd get if you were God's mohel.

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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ringo
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Message 20 of 98 (720614)
02-25-2014 11:14 AM


In before the fundies....
The foreskin was originated by The Fall.

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vimesey
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Message 21 of 98 (720615)
02-25-2014 11:20 AM
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02-25-2014 11:14 AM


Re: In before the fundies....
Since the foreskin's purpose seems to be to accommodate larger erections, can we therefore assume that The Fall resulted in bigger boners ?

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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ringo
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Message 22 of 98 (720616)
02-25-2014 11:27 AM
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02-25-2014 11:20 AM


Re: In before the fundies....
vimesey writes:
Since the foreskin's purpose seems to be to accommodate larger erections, can we therefore assume that The Fall resulted in bigger boners ?
Well, Eve did put clothes on which some people (not me) consider sexier than total nudity.

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Message 23 of 98 (720624)
02-25-2014 1:50 PM
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02-25-2014 7:35 AM


Although the idea somehow caught on that circumcision has some protective function, it's utterly ridiculous to think that's why God required it of Abraham. People do the same thing with the ancient food laws, claim they are simply the best food for people to eat, and make up all kinds of rationalizations for why that is. However, in the New Testament both circumcision and the Jewish food laws are declared to be inapplicable to the Gentiles who are becoming believers. It's absurd to think Gentiles would have been excluded from practices that have to do with health.
Both circumcision and the food laws are presented in scripture in the context of setting Israel apart from her Gentile neighbors. Circumcision sealed the covenant with God, the food laws kept the people from eating foods sacrificed by the heathen nations to their demon gods. Also some foods are symbolic or "types" of demonic creatures. Trying to give all this a medical meaning is to give a worldly meaning where an unworldly meaning was intended and to obscure God's true purpose in creating for Himself a holy people, a people set apart from the other nations of this world.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

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Faith 
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Message 24 of 98 (720626)
02-25-2014 2:05 PM
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02-25-2014 1:50 PM


Circumcision is also symbolic, symbolic of the removal of the "flesh" or the "world" from around the "heart" which is symbolic of the human spirit, thus releasing the human spirit which had been buried in the flesh. God is making for himself a spiritual people out of a fleshly people. This was fulfilled through the Messiah, Jesus Christ, as were all the other symbols and types of the Old Testament.

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Message 25 of 98 (720636)
02-25-2014 4:55 PM
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02-25-2014 1:50 PM


Trying to give all this a medical meaning is to give a worldly meaning where an unworldly meaning was intended
Bs'd
Fact of the matter is, it HAS a medical meaning.
Fact is, it saved and is saving millions of lives.
Hard to overlook that medical meaning.


"The only reality is mind and observations."

Richard Conn Henry, Cambridge professor department of physics

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Message 26 of 98 (720637)
02-25-2014 5:01 PM
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02-25-2014 4:55 PM


Fact of the matter is, it HAS a medical meaning.
You haven't ruled out coincidence, so no, its not a fact of the matter.

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Message 27 of 98 (720642)
02-25-2014 8:31 PM


I would think transmission of STDs via orogenital suction might give one pause when crowing about disease prevention. NYS DOH just issued a health advisory regarding HSV. Really, how did anyone ever think this particular practice (mohel sucking the blood) was a good idea?
Edited by snapdragon, : No spelchek on phone...
Edited by snapdragon, : Hsv not cmv

  
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Message 28 of 98 (720647)
02-25-2014 10:44 PM
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02-25-2014 7:35 AM


Couldn't he have just given them a recipe for producing a bar of soap? That would have been much less traumatic than cutting the skin off.

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Message 29 of 98 (720651)
02-25-2014 11:12 PM


The unkindest cut of all...
The term for this in anthropology is "ritual genital mutilation."
Any correlation between circumcision and arid regions where there is insufficient water for bathing (or cultures which did not emphasize bathing). Hmmmm.

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Message 30 of 98 (720653)
02-25-2014 11:38 PM
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02-25-2014 5:01 PM


You haven't ruled out coincidence, so no, its not a fact of the matter.
Bs'd
Coincedence or not, it is a fact that that Biblical ritual saves millions of lives and prevents untold human suffering.
And that is not the only Biblical law that turns out to be very benificial. If you keep on stacking "coincidence" on "coincicence", then it becomes very silly to keep on believing in coincidence.


"The only reality is mind and observations."

Richard Conn Henry, Cambridge professor department of physics

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