Which is a religious point.
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Replying to @alijayne_mcnabb @Cukullen and
Which is religion admitting what you have been protesting, that circumcision damages sexual pleasure. That it was intended to damage this. We can go back to Philo Judaeus in the first century AD, or Moses Maimonides in the 12th century, or even to dozens of doctors in the >>
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Replying to @alijayne_mcnabb @ReyosB and
Cú Chulainn Retweeted Ali Jayne McNabb
you say that you are not making a religious arguments; do you mean to defend the practice on any grounds but religious ones?https://twitter.com/alijayne_mcnabb/status/1046493106319872005 …
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When I say I am not making a religious argument, I mean I will not cite to the Torah. Not that I oppose the covenant. I don’t.
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Replying to @alijayne_mcnabb @ReyosB and
ok, i can accept your religious conviction as such. but the issue is your claim to inflict/support the infliction of this belief on children, with catastrophic consequences for their health and well-being.
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I disagree with your premise.
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Replying to @alijayne_mcnabb @ReyosB and
Jewish tradition is explicit that the purpose of circumcision is to traumatize the infant for life; Dr. Glick & others have documented this abundantly. so how can you disagree with the premise, except by repudiating jewish tradition itself?
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Replying to @Cukullen @alijayne_mcnabb and
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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