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Originally Posted by martyh
Way to take a comment out of context Zee 
we remove tonsils and other body parts when they cease to function and cause illness ,the same with foreskins they are medical reasons not religious
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The implication of your post Marty is that for [medical] read [essential] while for [religious] read [hobby] .... Or pastime, or some other optional activity that when push comes to shove simply isn't that vital.
That's how you choose to order your life - fine. However that's not how a religious person sees it. If they take their faith seriously, then it doesn't sit on a shelf until [insert holy day here] and then have no implications beyond the hour you spend listening to the rabbi, vicar or imam or whoever.
To the religious, God is real, as in objectively real, not just a nice idea or "real to me", and that means his commandments are important. You will never seek to persuade a religious person by saying, "well, this is important because it's medical, but that's just religion".