Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Why would a rational god care about anything one, primitive species does, who have existed for a bare instant of time on one, tiny speck of a planet?
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Would a rational Deity, demand circumcision?
- Thread starter Desert Snake
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Why would a rational god care about anything one, primitive species does, who have existed for a bare instant of time on one, tiny speck of a planet?
Skwim
Veteran Member
Hey, ya gotta stay with the story here. It's like asking how the wolf in the Three Little Pigs story could huff, and puff, and blow their house in. It's a given.
Akivah
Well-Known Member
And some non circumcised Christians undergo circumcision to become Jewish.
NulliuSINverba
Active Member
Ritualized genital mutilation must have been a part of His Plan® from the get-go, as he allegedly announced that his creation was "very good" when he was done with it. If He seriously found foreskins distasteful (in the aesthetic sense, of course) ... would he have included them in the anatomy of his creations for no good reason?
Perhaps he planned to create a universe that contained things he found distasteful just so he could enjoy the pleasure of seeing these things eradicated on a local level amongst his allegedly Chosen People?
Or maybe (since the more one examines issues like this the less they make any sense whatsoever) we should just clasp our hands together ... gaze upwards wistfully ... and mumble vague verbiage about "mysteries?"
Nothing like trying to answer a question by appealing to an even greater mystery, right?
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"And on the eighth day, when he had rested ...
... he noticed that his creation's junk needed editing."
Curious George
Veteran Member
Funny thread. But if you give an internet mouse a circumcision, he will likely want to engage in a long drawn out, emotional discussion on the topic....
given the assumptions here that God existence is rational, Gods communication with man is rational, Gods "laws" are rational, then yes a covenent with this entity involving circumcision would then too be rational.
But if we assume nothing, then god's existence is not rational. Therefore any seemingly irrational commands issued from this irrational being would rationally be irrational :-D so, again the answer is yes.
given the assumptions here that God existence is rational, Gods communication with man is rational, Gods "laws" are rational, then yes a covenent with this entity involving circumcision would then too be rational.
But if we assume nothing, then god's existence is not rational. Therefore any seemingly irrational commands issued from this irrational being would rationally be irrational :-D so, again the answer is yes.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
So, we could infer that the Covenant with the Christians, ie spiritual circumcision, is rational.
Curious George
Veteran Member
No. You can infer nothing because it would be based off too many assumptions that are arguably, not rational.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Fine, so what part is rational, and what isn't? If there are too many assumptions for spiritual circumcision, then there are too many assumptions for physical circumcision, imo.
Curious George
Veteran Member
Sure, I will agree that there are too many assumptions to deem physical circumcision rational (just as I would agree there are too many assumptions to deem going to church rational), but as it is not harmful it doesn't really present any problems.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
I basically agree with the NT on this.
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