Religion and Circumcision

It is not a big issue.
Therefore, I do not think much about it, as long as people are not forced.

As long as it is male circumcision, there is nothing bad happening

I don't get how some people think circumcision is what god wants them to do. If we were meant to have no foreskins, why are we supplied with them at all?

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In the pentateuch,(1st five bks of ot) the jews were required by God's law to circumcise all male babies at 8 days old. This was a way to stand out from other groups of people who didn't worship Jehovah. Uncircumcised men in the ot were viewed as pagans and unclean. To this day, jewish people still do circumcisions to uphold a religious practice.
Mind you this part is my opinion. But to answer your question, on a purely religious stance, maybe God supplied males with foreskin, so that when he mandated circumcision, it was a sign of those that followed him as opposed to those that rejected him?

A way to stand out? What did they do, flash each other? Unless they walked around naked, who would know? Seems a nice tasteful nose ring or a secret handshake would have worked better.
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