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   XPost: alt.religion.druid   
   From: deadmailbox@beeb.net   
      
   On 21/9/12 14:23, Norman Wells wrote:   
   > The Todal wrote:   
      
   >   
   >> As it happens I disapprove of religious circumcision and I think   
   >> religious communities should be encouraged to abandon this practice,   
   >> but it takes the argument no further to accuse these people of   
   >> "assault". You will be no more persuasive than if you kept telling   
   >> them that smacking a child is an outrageous assault. All they'll say   
   >> in reply is that you are an idealist who understands neither children   
   >> nor religious cultures and whose view should be disregarded.   
   >   
   > If you can't see the difference between actions that are deliberate   
   > assaults for no reason that result in permanent mutilation, and   
   > temporary punishment, then there's something seriously wrong with your   
   > intellect.   
      
   If you can't see how foolish and ill-informed your views will appear to   
   jews and muslims, there is certainly no point in you being the   
   standard-bearer to oppose ritual circumcision. Which fortunately you   
   aren't. Whoever takes on that role will have to find a better way of   
   persuading these religious people to see the error of their ways.   
      
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