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I know the organisation doesn't recommend routine circumcision of males, but don't they and a number of other organisations including the CDC, recommend that parents of males (and even uncircumcised adult men in the case of CDC) be given counselling on the health benefits of circumcision? To...

What are you saying? If female children were born with foreskins, we would probably have circumcision for females also. But we don't, because females aren't born with an unhygienic piece of excess skin impeding optimal function. We do have a name for Female Genital Mutilation, when barbaric...

With reduction of such horrible illnesses available for a quick snip of unhygienic skin at birth, its surprising to me that any would oppose routine circumcision. But to each their own, I suppose.

Not really sure. Perhaps it gives protection to the male member during birth? Perhaps even it has some sort of use later, I just don't think this can be so significant, given the sign of circumcision for all males in the Old Testament. It seems implied that the foreskin or our hearts makes us...

New Testament means New Covenant. The Old Covenant is fulfilled in Christ. I don't have an issue with circumcision, and believe it is probably beneficial, but preaching that circumcision is a requirement for believers is a damnable heresy, condemned by scripture in the strongest terms. Romans...

I agree with this. But there are some infections that can still be passed on even if both partners practiced abstinence until marriage. I believe circumcision can reduce these.

The important thing now from a Christian perspective (New Testament times) is circumcision of the heart, not of the flesh. Removing the foreskin of the heart, not of the male. If foreskin is representative of the sinful nature, and removing this nasty sinful nature (i.e. the foreskin of our...

Try telling that to the South African women who got AIDS, or women who contract less serious but more common diseases or illnesses, which they likely would not have caught had their husbands undergone a simple circumcision after birth. Unwanted and inconvenient are words which are probably too...

I understand your point, but the debate is in a Christian forum, so rightly should be debated from a Christian perspective. Were I non-Christian, I would possibly be less certain on this issue. Didn't most atheists consider foreskin a vestigual evolutionary leftover in the not-so-distant past...

So one could even say its even a bit misogynistic to try to prohibit a simple procedure that not only removes an unwanted and inconvenient flap of skin from males, but is also beneficial in preventing diseases for women. I can't speak for women, but if I were a woman, I would think circumcision...

Its really insulting to compare circumcision to FGM or setting children on fire. This is not a view supported by scripture, where Christians are required to have circumcised hearts, and the Jews were rebuked for having hard and uncircumcised hearts (along with other assorted uncircumcised body...

As Black Ribbon pointed out, many of us who do opt to circumcise do so for medical reasons. Its safer than vaccination, and without the risk of side effects. Many parents vaccinate without a second thought to the side effects which are not insignificant, but have some psychological fear of...

Not really. When you consider teenagers are at their most vulnerable to peer pressure and suicide during these years, having had a little snip at birth to help make the journey easier is a small price to pay. And that's if you believe the extra foreskin has any use after birth. For those of us...

Good, but also not so good. Remember the Hegelian Dialectic. Problem: Imbecilic/corrupt government. Reaction: Citizen outrage. Solution: Appeal to the big daddy New World Order government. A better solution would be to hang the traitors in government trying to create a medical dictatorship from...

So true. If a man feels so strongly about being circumcised (or being sent to school, or forced to eat his vegetables), there is always the option of the courts. If it was real abuse and real harm was done, there would surely be tens of thousands of cases? The funny thing is, those who seem...