• yesman@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Circumcision is not a Christian practice.

    It’s popular in America because some 19th Century RFK jr style health freaks convinced everybody that masturbation caused disease.

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      Kellogg was never actually that influential. People mostly knew he was a crackpot at the time.

      An episode of Adam Ruins Everything gave him way too much credit, and then people on the internet just keep repeating it because Kellogg was such a weird guy.

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      13 hours ago

      Even biblically speaking, it’s anti-christian. The first chunk of Galatians talks about how they should not force anyone to be circumcised. It goes against the bible to force anyone to be circumcised.

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      Fun fact: Adventists (Kellogg’s religion) run the second largest system of Christian schools, behind the Catholics. It definitely won’t leave you weird and sexually repressed for the rest of your life.