If an intact guy wants to be a Jewish person then he should be and that’s his decision.
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Replying to @RockerMan_198 @GenIntact and
. Jewish identity is defined by rules Circumcision is one of the main rules Maybe you would like to create a league with five bases, two outs per inning etc but it won't be called baseball
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Replying to @time2reclaim @realChaim_Rubin and
The original description of the Covenant (Genesis 15 in the Jahwist text) had no reference to
#circumcision. That story was revised only after the Babylonian Captivity (& moved to Genesis 17) by priests who thereafter pretended the circumcision reference had always been there.2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @RockerMan_198 and
. Except that there are multiple references to circumcision in the Torah &Prophets in different contexts, and your absurd statement has no basis whatsoever, why the hell would they do that? Know how many crackpot ideas all begin with the rabbis or priests changing &lying etc?pic.twitter.com/fwueznsJIN
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Replying to @realChaim_Rubin @RockerMan_198 and
The only references in the Torah to infant
#circumcision being a requirement are found in Genesis & Leviticus, and both of them were added by the priests only after the Babylonian Captivity. My statement is based on academic research into the drafting history of the Torah.3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @realChaim_Rubin and
Why the priests so revised the Torah is a good question, since child
#circumcision on its face isn't something that could possibly have been decreed by a beneficent God. Likely they were cut themselves, & so thought all males should be, i.e., exactly what many cut men think today2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @RockerMan_198 and
. Circular reasoning I have to admit if God had not specified circumcision I wouldn't have come up with the idea myself It doesn't explain why cultures other than Jews circumcise Or why epidemiological evidence shows public health benefits of circumcision
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Replying to @realChaim_Rubin @RockerMan_198 and
The international medical consensus - set forth here: https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/131/4/796 … - is that the epidemiological evidence shows that the public health benefits of
#circumcision are limited & could never justify forcing it on a child as a matter of#bioethics in any event.#i21 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @RockerMan_198 and
. What you are saying is that it is contraversial Disagreement, charges of bias etc I know how I come down on it But at the very least it's a wash So only those who attach importance to circumcision should do it Like Jews And the UN should stop circumcision in Africa
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I think you and I are starting to understand one another. Make that penultimate line "Like adult Jews" and I think we'd be there.
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