Does baptism not exist in Lyra’s world in HIS DARK MATERIALS? It seems the Magisterium is hoping intercision will play a similar theological role in removing original sin. Given they’re performing intercision on children, infant baptism doesn’t exist?
its associated with lust and pleasures of the flesh which are a sin. "God" commanded its removal precisely because it removes earthly pleasure. Disgusting practice.
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Do you have a biblical verse for that? Circumcision is a mark of the Abrahamic covenant in the Bible, not a procedure to remove “earthly pleasure.” (Also, my original tweet was part of a thread about the series HIS DARK MATERIALS and its fictional intercision procedure.)
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That is largely why circumcision began in early antiquity, however, regardless of how it was interpreted theologically by biblical authors in the fifth century BCE and onward.
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