https://twitter.com/alijayne_mcnabb/status/1046415837190606849 … What happened to arguing science, not religion?
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How can natural things be defective so that they need to be perfected from outside, all the more because we know how useful the foreskin is for that member? In fact this commandment has not been prescribed with a view to perfecting what is defective congenitally, but to >>
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2> perfecting what is defective morally. The bodily pain caused to that member is the real purpose of circumcision. None of the activities necessary for the preservation of the individual is harmed thereby, nor is procreation rendered impossible, but violent concupiscence >>
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3> and lust that goes beyond what is needed are diminished. The fact that circumcision weakens the faculty of sexual excitement and sometimes perhaps diminishes the pleasure is indubitable. For if at birth this member has been made to bleed and has had its covering taken away >>
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4> from it, it must indubitably be weakened. The Sages, may their memory be blessed, have explicitly stated: It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for >>
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5> circumcision." Jewish Scholar Moses Maimonides, also known as Rambam, most influential torah scholar of his age (1135-1204)
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"First of all, it is a symbol of the excision of the pleasures which delude the mind; for since, of all the delights which pleasure can afford, the association of man with woman is the most exquisite, it seemed good to the lawgivers to mutilate the organ which ministers to >>
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2> such connections; by which rite they signified figuratively the excision of all superfluous and excessive pleasure, not, indeed, of one only, but of all others whatever, through that one which is the most imperious of all." Jewish scholar Philo Judaeus 12th century AD
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CORRECTION - I had the dates of my Jewish scholars reversed, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria was from 25 BC - 50 AD, Maimonides was 12th century
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