The right of the child goes above your right to religion, nut. It's time your kind and all the damages it's done started disappearing. I know hundreds die from complications and at minimum thousands have permanent complications. So your personal experience doesn't matter.
Really? So you're in the wrong thread. This is about forbidding parents from forcing their religious will on infants. You can do whatever crap you want as an adult.
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~60% of Americans are circumcised at birth. It's still mostly the norm there, not just among certain religious communities.
It's actually a byproduct of a fad in the early 20th Century in the medical community. For some reason it's stuck in the US where it didn't elsewhere.
Man I wish we could sit down all the major religions in the world and just sort through their customs and rites. Find the ones that are backasswards and just remove them.
If the religious nuts don't agree with them, They can bugger off to a land that tolerates zealots.
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And luckily your opinion does not matter here.
Never really got me why this "issue" is such a big deal, if we're talking about the guy who "pretends" he is a doctor and is slicing it off with a kitchen knife in the middle of a dirty village then sure, otherwise I really don't get all the fuss.
We have a tiny handful of people that yell and scream...but when it comes time to actually do "something" about it that resembles civil activity they all seem to scurry off in the shadows where the cockroaches hide. I guess they have better things to do with their respective lives.
Sigh.
You are missing 2 important things.
1. If you were circumcised as an infant you never chose it. And literally have no idea what it is not to be circumcised, so you have no comparison. You can never have a comparison. The reverse is not the case. Someone who wasn't circumcised as an infant, can as an adult chose to get it done, and that's perfectly fine, their body, their choice.
2. While you had no "negative consequences" that is not always the case. Furthermore because point 1, if you had slight negative consequences, like loss of sensation, you wouldn't actually know.
And finally...it's not about religion, it's about CHOICE! If you chose to get circumcised as an adult for religious reasons that is perfectly fine, but don't take away peoples choice before they are aware of the fact that they have a choice. Also...if you are not Jewish or Muslim circumcision is not a religious choice for you as it is not really done for religious reasons, it is not a component of any Christian theology.
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"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
Close to it.
I am not against Ritualism and the congregation of Religion, but the idea that certain rites that cause harm or promote rather dangerous beliefs should be scoured from modern religion by the hand of secular ideals.
In the modern world Organised Religion seems more and more like a dinosaur, Why do we give them the time of day?