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Obviously. Clearly I have not reviewed the market in some time. I have fixed that. Though, back 40 years ago, I bet the anti-vaccine/anti-science crowd would have made the same fallacious claim.
And why must a person have their foreskin removed in order to do that? Are women able to be a part of a close knit tribal people?
It’s part of our covenant with God. You cannot divorce culture from religion.
So which of those diseases do you think children should have?
No eight-day-old infant has the capacity to enter into any covenant.
You are wrong. Such has been happening for thousands of years.
To enter into a covenant - i.e. a binding agreement - a person must (among other things):
So then we're back to the question, why are people from your tribe born with foreskins that require removal in the first place then? God can't create babies without them, so that it would be obvious at birth who is and is not a member of the tribe?
In many cultures, children are entered into covenants. For example, marriages are arranges when children are very young (although such marraiges do not take place until after puberty).
God created the process of evolution, which works very nicely. Not only did evolution create the foreskins which are fine for 99.98% of male babies, but it also gave rise to CULTURE, which takes care of the 0.02% of male babies where it isn't fine.
And I say that you're imposing your values on babies and children who are too young to truly understand and consent to them. The arranged marriage thing really brings that message home.
Why does "he" create foreskins for babies who aren't supposed to have foreskins?? Why does "he" require human beings to carry out such monumentally important tasks?
... in order to prevent more diseases. If you took some out, this would make kids more vulnerable to the respective diseases.
My friend, parents ALWAYS impose their values on their children. That's what parents are supposed to do. It's part of child rearing. Even those parents who decide not to, in a thousand ways that they are not aware of, they still impose their values on their children.
I just answered the question. Go back and read it again.
This goes beyond teaching values to one's children, as everybody does. You're altering the bodies of babies who have no ability to grasp the concept of religion and you're doing it without their consent.
I don't see how that answers the question or makes any sense.
As do Mexican who pierce their baby girls' ears. Many folks object to that also. I say, stay out of it. You are being imperialistic and athropocentric.