San Francisco to ban circumcision

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Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Circumcision on the other hand is, as a previous poster pointed out, the Jewish version of a blood sacrifice to god.

Originally Posted by ila

Circumcision is also a requirement of Islam. Calling it a blood sacrifice is going over the top.

I couldn't agree more with ila that Enoch Root's statement is "over the top." "Blood sacrifice" involves death. Whatever else one might think of circumcision, in Judaism and Islam it is a religious affirmation of life.