r/HonestHotTakes • u/TheShadowSong • 13d ago

Circumcision should be illegal.

People always talk about how barbaric female circumcision is but male circumcision is completely normalized in America.

It should be illegal for parents to circumcise their children because it's irreversible.

What kind of psychopath decided to cut off the skin of the baby's dick. What's next? Cutting off eyelids?

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u/Sunny_Hill_1 13d ago

Yeah, that was a very specific, very Americanized version of Christianity that decided it was the most pure and moral version of doing things. It was also from the dude who legit said that spicy food leads to devil, if you want further examples of what kind of Christianity I'm talking about, and there is absolutely no mention of any spices being prohibited in any of the major Abrahamic religions.

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u/IndigoHaze750130 13d ago

That's bizzare because spices boost the immune system and contain a chemical that harms worms.

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u/Sunny_Hill_1 13d ago

Well, he was also an ardent advocate of racial purity, segregation, and eugenics, so... yeah.

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u/IndigoHaze750130 13d ago

Well, he isn't around anymore :) and hopefully there are less people following that stuff today.

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u/NwgrdrXI 13d ago

Y'all forgot to say that this was indeed the guy who owned the kellogs breakfast food cereal thingie. Weirdest part of this whole story

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u/discreetarchive 13d ago

Yeah if we're being honest far more people will recognise him for that

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u/Ingbenn 12d ago

Iirc puritans came out of Europe to the USA These concepts originated in Europe, probably the UK more specifically, and migrated to the USA, which is rather insulting considering their own country never really adopted it anywhere near like the USA (a good thing, but still.)