Circumcision and violence: Difference between revisions

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The first use of [[circumcision]] to cause violence was at [[Gilgal]], where Joshua ordered the Israelites to be [[circumcised]].<ref>{{REFweb

The first recorded use of [[circumcision]] to cause violence was at [[Gilgal]] (1406 BCE), where Joshua ordered the Israelites to be [[circumcised]].<ref>{{REFweb

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Lloyd deMause (1996) argued that early childhood [[trauma]] results in aggressive adult behavior.

[https://psychohistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/5.-Final-Elovitz-on-LLoyd-deMauses-Contributions-to-Psycohhistory.pdf Lloyd deMause] (1996) argued that early childhood [[trauma]] results in aggressive adult behavior.

''That America has arranged to have more people on welfare'' – ''Gingrich’s dreaded “underclass”'' – ''than any other industrialized country is a clue to why nations need poor people to punish for their prosperity. Since it is prosperity and threats of intolerable individuation that trigger the restaging of trauma, it makes psychohistorical sense that America today'' – ''the most prosperous and freest nation of any in history'' – ''has more women and children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation. Nor is it coincidental that the world’s wealthiest country has the highest child homicide rate and the most newborn boys [[circumcised]], both indices of society’s hostility towards children.''<ref name="demause1996">{{REFjournal

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According to Professor [[Leonard Glick]], Chapter 17 (containing the alleged [[Abrahamic covenant]]) was not added to the book of Genesis until after the Babylonian captivity, which ended in 538 BCE.

According to the late Professor [[Leonard Glick]], Chapter 17 (containing the alleged [[Abrahamic covenant]]) was not added to the book of Genesis until after the Babylonian captivity, which ended in 538 BCE.

The [[Brit Milah]] in which a [[circumcised]] [[mohel]] reenacts his own traumatic circumcision upon a newborn boy on the eighth day of life is a standard feature of [[Judaism]].

Jewish philosophers [[Philo]] and [[Moses Maimonides]] both believed that reduction of body pleasure was a positive attribute of circumcision.

Jewish philosophers [[Philo]] and [[Moses Maimonides]] both believed that reduction of [[body pleasure]] was a positive attribute of [[Brit Milah| circumcision]].

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-The first use of [[circumcision]] to cause violence was at [[Gilgal]], where Joshua ordered the Israelites to be [[circumcised]].<ref>{{REFweb
+The first recorded use of [[circumcision]] to cause violence was at [[Gilgal]] (1406 BCE), where Joshua ordered the Israelites to be [[circumcised]].<ref>{{REFweb
   |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua%205&version=HCSB
   |title=Joshua 5
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 </blockquote>
-Lloyd deMause (1996) argued that early childhood [[trauma]] results in aggressive adult behavior.
+[https://psychohistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/5.-Final-Elovitz-on-LLoyd-deMauses-Contributions-to-Psycohhistory.pdf Lloyd deMause] (1996) argued that early childhood [[trauma]] results in aggressive adult behavior.
 <blockquote>
 ''That America has arranged to have more people on welfare'' – ''Gingrich’s dreaded “underclass”'' – ''than any other industrialized country is a clue to why nations need poor people to punish for their prosperity. Since it is prosperity and threats of intolerable individuation that trigger the restaging of trauma, it makes psychohistorical sense that America today'' – ''the most prosperous and freest nation of any in history'' – ''has more women and children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation. Nor is it coincidental that the world’s wealthiest country has the highest child homicide rate and the most newborn boys [[circumcised]], both indices of society’s hostility towards children.''<ref name="demause1996">{{REFjournal
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 }}</ref>
-According to Professor [[Leonard Glick]], Chapter 17 (containing the alleged [[Abrahamic covenant]]) was not added to the book of Genesis until after the Babylonian captivity, which ended in 538 BCE.
+According to the late Professor [[Leonard Glick]], Chapter 17 (containing the alleged [[Abrahamic covenant]]) was not added to the book of Genesis until after the Babylonian captivity, which ended in 538 BCE.
 The [[Brit Milah]] in which a [[circumcised]] [[mohel]] reenacts his own traumatic circumcision upon a newborn boy on the eighth day of life is a standard feature of [[Judaism]].
-Jewish philosophers [[Philo]] and [[Moses Maimonides]] both believed that reduction of body pleasure was a positive attribute of circumcision.
+Jewish philosophers [[Philo]] and [[Moses Maimonides]] both believed that reduction of [[body pleasure]] was a positive attribute of [[Brit Milah| circumcision]].
 ===Islam===