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Innocent enquiry @skydancer, do you come from a personal or familial culture that practices circumcisions?
Yes. I was circumcised at birth and I circumcised my son. To no ill effect. I am now an atheist. My son isn't and would really be unhappy if he hadn't been done when he was a week old.
I understand why this may be considered barbaric
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My son isn't and would really be unhappy if he hadn't been done when he was a week old.
This doesn't stack up. How can he be unhappy about something not happening, which he wouldn't have had any understanding of, or control over, at the time? Should he grow up feeling guilty that he didn't observe his birth religion properly as a baby?!
PhilPub
Innocent enquiry @skydancer, do you come from a personal or familial culture that practices circumcisions?
To me, from a family with a medically circumcised male relative, but no religious culture of the practice, it is a no brainer that the right to not be cut up as a child outranks the right of the parent to choose to cut up their child based on a religious belief.
Disclaimer:
I would argue for the removal of the right to any and all religious belief to be removed from the set of "universal" human rights. Probably not a topic for discussion here and now.