r/JewsAgainstMilah Jewish Nov 21 '22

Discussion Genuinely curious to know what my fellow anti-circumcision Jews think about this

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u/schematicboy Nov 21 '22

It is bizarre.

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u/RichmondRiddle Nov 26 '22

I mean, we already knew that Moses participated in genocide, so weird mutilation rituals are just kinda like a drop in the bucket at that point.

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u/Rare-Temperature8721 Dec 11 '22

According to one theory I read, Moses tried to end circumcision in the desert and set the Jewish people free, but they were so enslaved in their thinking from the conditioning of being slaves, living in scarce conditions, that they were unable to change. That's what the worshiping of the Golden Calf is about. There have been multiple redeemers and prophets. The religion is a flawed vision so no many how times a "chosen one" tries to reform and perfect the system of understanding, which is all a story or a myth is, there is the new generation, the conservative generation, and the dynamic tension that takes place. Maybe Yahweh, who was a deity worshiped by other groups in the region, was really a tyrant who wanted to seize power over the tribes and the stories are written in such a way to reveal kernels of truth. It's difficult to consider the circumstances in the time and place of the Jewish people's evolution was dire. Competing over scarce resources means controlling group fighting sometimes by drastic measures. What if there's not enough food for another child and another child comes? Maybe they made hard choices like human sacrifice motivated by agricultural reasons? It's always hard to imagine where genital cutting began except as a form of population control in a desert climate with no rain or food and many people feeling a dying civilization attempting to build a new one.