Sentences with phrase «thoughts on circumcision»

What are your thoughts on circumcision?

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I think your analogy to circumcision / baptism to modern westernized church attendance is spot on.

He has experienced awe, the religious passion, during the dark vision between the sacrificial pieces; he has enacted the new covenant marked by (self --RRB- circumcision — a symbolic act of «partial sacrifice,» betokening dedication to God's ways; he has been God's partner in the judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, and in his own heart has accepted responsibility for (what he thought was) the «death» of Lot; he has beheld the wondrous birth of Isaac and endured the banishment of Ishmael.

’14 In popular Jewish thought Elijah came to be regarded as «the ever - present prophet, wandering incognito over the earth, sometimes in the garb of a nomad, to aid in moments of distress and danger, appearing to mystics and scholars to teach them hidden truths, and acting as celestial messenger».15 He was thought to be present at every ceremony of circumcision as the guardian spirit and witness, and on such occasions a special chair was reserved for him.

I think you made some great points about IF parents choose circumcision for their baby, to be present for the procedure (which I can imagine is so much more reassuring to the baby to hear mom / dad's voice rather than being alone with a doctor) and insist on the anesthesia.

Sunny Gault: You know I had not heard of it either honestly and I do this types of show all the time and even in talking and doing specific shows on circumcision, I do not think breast feeding was ever really brought up.

My husband and I had talked about this topic before babies even came on our radar and we both thought that circumcision was an unnecessary tradition that needed to go the way of total extinction.

Whereas my midwives had previously given my a booklet of their thoughts on everything from optimal health to circumcision to sciatic problems.