hava1 wrote:The Torah/Bible (and Quran which affirms both of these docs as valid testaments), are the creation of the opposition to child sacrifice and to bodily maiming, which was the common religion of their respective era. I dont subscribe to a religion, but I try to stick to facts when opposing religious precepts, or else I serve their claims, that secular people are ignoramuses.
The TOrah and the Bible are one long menifesto against human sacrifice as ritual, and this was the main novelty. THou shall not kill is one of the commandments that all three religions propose as law.
That's a fascinating take on it, hava, that Jewish law was formulated, partly at least, as a reaction to the widespread Caananite rituals involving child sacrifice.
Canadian_watcher wrote:pretty much the same. It is a rite which asserts the supremacy of the patriarch. It does inhibit sexual pleasure for both males and females. It symbolizes allegiance to God as the Bible and Torah make much of the sacrifice of sons and male body parts - particularly if the father is to sacrifice his son at the behest of the Almighty.
I'd say that the importance of both the binding of Issac and the rite of circumcision have far more to do with obediance to God than with male sacrifice. The binding of Issac ight be periferally read as specifically entreating the Jews to abhor the sacrifice of humans in favor of animal sacrifice, especially in light of the particulars of later Mosaic law, i.e., the commandments.
It seems somehow appropriate that my 9000th post here is regarding the subject of penii. w00t
just a note: as you know, I'm a little stubborn, so I think I would have won that circumcision battle.. however we'll never know. I know that I would have been the odd man out on it, and that's a tough row to hoe when you're a new parent.
My bible's in a box under the stairs and there are spiders there. I took the lazy route and looked up a web site.
