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- Date: Sunday, 20 December 1992 10:47:16 MST
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- From: "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com>
- Organization: Nobody but me -- really
- References: <1glhqeINNi59@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec17.191202.13196@netnews.noc.drexel.edu> <1992Dec18.173018@IASTATE.EDU> <1992Dec19.015857.25809@colorado.edu> <1992Dec19.192420.2036@ncsu.edu>
- Subject: Re: About circumcision
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
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- Lines: 41
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- In <1992Dec19.192420.2036@ncsu.edu>, acb@Ziggy.csl.ncsu.edu (Andrew C. Burnette) wrote:
- #
- # In article <1992Dec19.015857.25809@colorado.edu>, maman@mars.Colorado.EDU (Nathan M. Maman) writes:
- # |> By another way, Rambam (Maimonides) explained why Jews are
- # |> circumsized. The hygienic part is not the main part. I remember
- # |> (well I hope) he wrote that humans were made perfect by God but as
- # |> they were part mud, they have a moral imperfection: they like sex too
- # |> much. So to avoid masturbation and lust, they remove this part so the
- # |> penis will irritate easily.
-
- # That really bugs me. Religeous leaders know little enough about sex just to make them
- # dangerous. Unless of course we're talking about stopping the spread of aids. NOT.
-
- How to say this? The RaMBaM lived almost a thousand years ago and
- was a physician of such note that his medical writings were standard
- texts until quite recently. Unlike Catholic priests, rabbis are NOT
- celibate -- in fact, marriage is practically a requirement for being
- taken seriously. Oops.
-
- # But, I am truely offended that now I find out no anesthetic is used, and
- # their seems to be no reason for this, unless the rabbis from the Jewish faith seem
- # to have the same problems as the catholic priesthood,
-
- Actually, rabbis have very little to do with it. It's purely a
- medical decision. Anesthetics, like ALL drugs, have their
- downsides and infants are particularly sensitive. On the other
- hand, thousands of years' experience has taught that when a
- circumcision is performed QUICKLY and SKILLFULLY, the child takes
- it about as well as the heel-prick used to diagnose PKU. (Hey!
- there's another abuse we can campaign against!)
-
- # with little kids that is.
- # And no, I am not sure what religeon my mother was practicing at that point...seems
- # as though she tried several out in the 60's.
-
- Is her mother Jewish? If not, you can forget Judaism.
-
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