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Originally Posted by Chris
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".
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I couldn't care less if people get circumcised if that's how they express their religious beliefs so be it ,i just feel that infant circumcision should be more tightly regulated ,not for any reason other than we can do it safer and better .We aren't living in the desert anymore we have knowledge and skills that are in themselves god like compared to 3000 yrs ago and i choose to believe that was Gods intention,to give us the ability to develop and progress beyond a primitive society , so lets use this knowledge to the best of our ability and if that means dragging some religious traditions kicking and screaming into the 21st century so be it