It is amazing though how ONLY the U.S. and ISRAEL mutilate their male babies by performing circumcisions. We don't even think about it but there is NO REASON to mutilate male babies. No other countries on the planet practice this mutilation. There are many Jews in the U.S. medical community and it is just accepted.
"Say what you know. Think about what you don't"
Wiki:
It has been variously proposed that circumcision began as a religious sacrifice, an offering to ensure fertility, a tribal mark, a rite of passage, an attempt to emphasise masculinity, a means of humiliating enemies and slaves,
[15] or as a hygienic measure.
[15][16] Darby describes these theories as "conflicting", and states that "the only point of agreement among proponents of the various theories is that promoting good health had nothing to do with it."
[15] Immerman
et al. suggest that circumcision causes lowered sexual arousal of pubescent males, and hypothesize that this was a competitive advantage to tribes practising circumcision, leading to its spread.
[17]
The oldest documentary evidence for circumcision comes from
ancient Egypt.
[18] Circumcision was common, although not universal, among ancient
Semitic peoples.
[19] In the aftermath of the conquests of
Alexander the Great, however, Greek dislike of circumcision (they regarded a man as truly "naked" only if his prepuce was retracted) led to a decline in its incidence among many peoples that had previously practiced it.
[20]
Circumcision has ancient roots among several ethnic groups in sub-equatorial Africa, and is still performed on adolescent boys to symbolize their transition to warrior status or adulthood.
[21]
