As someone who finds circumcision of minor boys to be extremely unethical genital mutilation and a human rights crime against the child that should be illegal, it is very difficult to rationalize the Hebrew obsession with circumcision. The body is supposed to be a temple designed perfectly by God. God makes no mistakes…except for male foreskin? Jews will not even allow tattoos or body piercings, even ear piercings for earrings. But chopping an entire functional body part designed by God off of the sex organs of little screaming baby boys in extreme pain & torture, such a horrific monstrous barbaric act…is seen as a sacrosanct commandment by the Jews?
Even the story of Abraham & Isaac is utterly awful, Abraham is willing to stab his son to death, he ties the poor little boy up to stab him dead, lies to his son what he’s doing, but then ‘God’ says haha was just joking, just chop your son’s most sensitive body part off with a sharp rock and no anesthesia using 3000 BC medical technology? Just awful…but it is impossible to take literally many of the horrendous words & deeds attributed to YHWH in the Hebrew Bible & reconcile that with the message of the Gospels of Jesus.
A strict literalist non-critical interpretation of the Old Testament is incompatible with contemporary Christian morality, just have to view it in critical context. 3,000 years ago in the sandy desert, circumcision may have been of cleanliness benefit to Jews, don’t have to wash sand out from under the foreskin if it’s cut off, there were practical reasons just like for not eating ‘unclean’ animals. In the modern world of hygiene & running water where it’s easy to wash under the foreskin, there is no longer a justification of any sort for circumcision of non-consenting children, whether male or female.
