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The woke Trump administration again persecuting Christians and attacking their rites
Most Christians don't do the dick chop, it's a US and Jewish thing (maybe Muslim too?)
It’s quite common among Christians in the u.s. Probably somehow related to Kellogg and Graham, of cereal and crackers. Those types were obsessed with preventing masturbation and pleasure.
Not in the US. About 80% are circumcised in the US, including most Christians.
I guess I meant an inclusive and, meaning Jewish or US American, but it would have meant an either or situation there.
Where I live, chopping dicks is predominantly a Jewish thing, and is the butt of many Jewish jokes. Personally, I'm anti-baby-dick-chopping.
To give some perspective on why this is the case from an American, it isn't that a bunch of parents are asking / going out of their way to get this done, it's that the doctors almost always offer it with the justification that it's a preventative measure against infections, and the parents generally don't question it due to how commonplace it is already. The cultural reasons that started this haven't been popular for decades and it's only the medical establishment that's keeping this going.
That figure absolutely staggers me. The fact that it’s so commonplace to irreversibly mutilate the genitals of a baby that has no capacity to consent to such a lifelong alteration really says something. Conservatives being up-in-arms about trans kids taking hormone blockers to prevent puberty but not about taking a scalpel to babies’ penises would be genuinely baffling if I didn’t already expect that without double standards, they’d have no standards.
Yep. Blew my mind when I learned about it, too. Unfortunately it's not unusual or even difficult for these people to hold two completely incompatible opinions at the same time. I should add that female genital mutilation is not commonplace in the US. It doesn't make it better, just less horrible.
Back in the 70s-80s many Christian Americans were circumcised because it was thought to be cleaner. Doctors would often just do it once the baby was born with little to no input from parents.
That's fucked up. It's still fucked up if the parents ask for it. My body my choice and all that.
US thing = American Christian thing = American thing