circumcision & Catholic teaching ?

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Main Entry: ther·a·peu·tic
Pronunciation: "ther-&-'pyü-tik
Function: adjective
Etymology: Greek therapeutikos, from therapeuein to attend, treat, from theraps attendant
1 : of or relating to the treatment of disease or disorders by remedial agents or methods <a therapeutic rather than a diagnostic specialty>
2 : providing or assisting in a cure :<therapeutic diets> <a therapeutic investigation of government waste>
As a medical professional, I’ll stick with *Taber’s a MEDICAL resource. 🙂 *

I can diagram therapeutic (I teach Med term… so forgive my 🤓

Therapeut/o means treatment. -ic means pertaining to.

Have you heard of preventive treatment?

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for well over a year. I think this thread may be of interest to those considering this topic, but it is no longer a discussion, simply a replay of the same mantra of both perspectives.**

You are right.** :yup:**
 
**You don’t have to understand it because he’s not YOUR kid. Even so, you wouldn’t be happy if the father insisted on it either, which you later claim he has no business doing because a circ’d father wouldn’t know what he was doing.:cool: **

Actually, what I requested was a friendly debate of our perspectives. I’m not a particuliarly sensitive person, imho, but I tend to get annoyed when people reference my morally allowed decisions for my sons as ignorant, mutilating (abusive?), and immoral.

Again. Not very friendly. And not a good debate strategy either.

God is omnipresent and all-knowing and perfect in His knowledge and cannot sin. To suggest that He would lead His people then or now to sin is to say God Himself sins.

The closest anyone can go to making this a moral issue is to claim that circ-ing should be done in Jewish fashion with the father’s okay. And even that is slim picking for their case as there is particuliar no biblical or traditional approved mthod of circ-ing that I’m aware of.


**Actually you called it immoral (immoral = sin) and that issue has been beaten to death here already. It is not immoral. Period. **

No, it was about Him being circ’d as was required by God’s law.

Enough already. We’ve been http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb59/KathlikMama/121b9988.gif for well over a year. I think this thread may be of interest to those considering this topic, but it is no longer a discussion, simply a replay of the same mantra of both perspectives.
Martha, I do believe you have quoted someone else and referred to me as the one speaking. For the record, I have never once said circumcison was immoral, nor was I the one who said anything about a circ’d husband not knowing what he was doing.
And it was not I who put the definition of mutilation in the thread, although I did select some of the descriptive words as what I felt were appropriate. Afterall, a circumcision is disfiguring as it changes the natural appearance of one’s body.

Immoral, sinful? Not in my opinion. Never said it was.

Necessary? No

Therapeutic? Only if a diagnosis has been made and the circumcision is need as treatment.

Anyway, you’re right, this is getting old. I only stuck around because I needed the practice so I could debate the GIRM over in the Liturgy and Sacrament section. Good day.
 
Thank you to all who participated, this thread is now closed.

Mane Nobiscum Domine,
Ferdinand Mary
 
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