It was a bris. A sacred family ceremony, like a christening. A time for reverence and joy. 8 people were killed by a monster with a gun. Despite the fact that 3 police were shot, the President blamed the victims because in America, you’re supposed to arm yourself AT A BRIS?
I've never heard of a nonviolent circumcision and will happily research that. But I'd bet money that a ceremony at a Conservative shul is cutting that foreskin off.
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It's like you didnt read anything I said. Not all bris includes circumcision. Read it again. Some parents opt for a hospital circumcision and an increasing number of parents are opting for keeping their children intact and just doing a ceremonial bris.
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Hello, I read it. If they got it done in the hospital, that's no less barbaric, to my raised-Jewish mind. Come down off your high horse. We do routine violence to babies for no good medical reason. It's shameful. A shonda.
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Selfhate much?
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Nope. Just woke. And I'm unmoved by AIPAC talking point tropes. Feel free to unfollow me if that hurts.
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You give me permission to unfollow? You find a thousands of years ceremony , one filled with love and pride, violent? There is a judgement. Cultures all over the world have different kinds of ceremonies that YOU would deem violent. And you would not hurt a fly.
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I don't support any religion that forces behaviors, limits speech, or does violence to bodies. Bringing in other religions is a debate fallacy, a tactic that does nil to forward your argument. "But what about..." and "So you must also think..." Do you have an argument to make?
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But to answer your question, yes, I do find cutting off ultra-sensitive skin on the male sex organ to be barbaric. It took me a long time to come to that conclusion, as it has with many fellow Jews who also do not hate themselves. So what, it's an ancient ritual? ...
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... Cutting clitorises goes far back, too. Female infibulation is abhorrent to you, I'm sure. But circumcision cuts way down on the man's sexual pleasure too. Beware of hypocrisy. It's an equal opportunity virus.
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