Abrahamic covenant: Difference between revisions
WikiModEn2 (talk | contribs) →Questioning the Abrahamic Covenant: Add citation. |
WikiModEn2 (talk | contribs) →Questioning the Abrahamic Covenant: Improve citation. |
||
| Line 64: | Line 64: | ||
Many have wondered why God would create men with a [[foreskin]] with documented protective, immunological, sensory, and sexual [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| physiological functions]] only to require that it be cut off after eight days of life. | Many have wondered why God would create men with a [[foreskin]] with documented protective, immunological, sensory, and sexual [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| physiological functions]] only to require that it be cut off after eight days of life. | ||
Some contemporary Jewish parents feel that [[circumcision]] is a painful amputation that inflicts pain, physical, [[Sexual effects of circumcision| sexual]], and [[Psychological issues of male circumcision| psychological]] harm to a child. They wish to protect a son from such harm and so have adopted a peaceful, non-cutting naming ceremony usually called [[Brit Shalom]] instead of the traditional [[Brit Milah]]. Goodman (1999) has called for an end to ritual cutting.{{REFjournal | Some contemporary Jewish parents feel that [[circumcision]] is a painful amputation that inflicts pain, physical, [[Sexual effects of circumcision| sexual]], and [[Psychological issues of male circumcision| psychological]] harm to a child. They wish to protect a son from such harm and so have adopted a peaceful, non-cutting naming ceremony usually called [[Brit Shalom]] instead of the traditional [[Brit Milah]]. Goodman (1999) has called for an end to ritual cutting.<ref name="goodman1999">{{REFjournal | ||
|last=Goodman | |last=Goodman | ||
|first= | |first=Jenny | ||
|author-link= | |author-link= | ||
|etal=no | |||
|etal= | |||
|title=Jewish circumcision: an alternative perspective | |title=Jewish circumcision: an alternative perspective | ||
|trans-title= | |trans-title= | ||
| Line 101: | Line 77: | ||
|volume=83 Suppl 1 | |volume=83 Suppl 1 | ||
|issue= | |issue= | ||
|pages= | |pages=22-7 | ||
|url=https://bjui-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1022.x | |url=https://bjui-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1022.x | ||
|archived= | |archived= | ||
|quote= | |quote= | ||
|pubmedID= | |pubmedID=10349411 | ||
|pubmedCID= | |pubmedCID= | ||
|DOI= | |DOI=10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1022.x | ||
|accessdate=2020-04-08 | |accessdate=2020-04-08 | ||
}} | }}</ref> | ||
==Debunking the Abrahamic Covenant== | ==Debunking the Abrahamic Covenant== | ||