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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think your use of the term "religious crap" tells me all I needs to know.  Best of luck.[/quote]
Me too. Tells me OP is smart and she and her husband will probably come to the right conclusion to not circumcise. I've heard of doing a ceremony where they just prick the baby's foreskin, but even that seems a bit cruel. [b]It's such a cruel and archaic practice.[/b] If your DH isn't even religious, I don't know why you would do this to your son. You can never take it back. You sound smart, OP, you hsould feel free to put your foot down and say no.[/quote]

OK, I will say that the one bris we attended, it did really feel like it was a practice from another time and place. After the blood-letting we drank and ate and they read something about the baby's name. We were definitely in the realm of the religious and you could understand how something like this came to be freighted with all this meaning. At the same time, it made a part of me viscerally uncomfortable. The only thing I can compare it to is the one time I was present at an Islamic celebration of the Day of Ashura, in which people were literally cutting themselves and praying. I had just been on a hike with friends and out in nature and it was the most jarring and disturbing experience to suddenly see this happening. Human beings are so, so complicated.[/quote]

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