tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-370182032693696367.post4630394676697345421..comments2023-12-11T00:24:39.466-08:00Comments on Murdockinations: Christopher Hitchens Goes After Rabbi Harold Kushner re: CircumcisionJZ Murdockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04366296091345604149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-370182032693696367.post-78519933416306400642010-08-26T12:42:13.983-07:002010-08-26T12:42:13.983-07:00Interesting. Thanks for the comments.Interesting. Thanks for the comments.JZ Murdockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10765706992952885128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-370182032693696367.post-16279586050244841172010-08-26T09:50:34.949-07:002010-08-26T09:50:34.949-07:00* The more the word Intactivist is used in media, ...* The more the word Intactivist is used in media, the more likely it will get in the dictionary. And the more the circumcision will be discussed leading to fewer circumcisions. Here's to intactness and not "uncircumcised". This says nothing about the natural state. Do we say unmestecodied?<br />http://twitter.com/KOTFrank (KOT=a foreskin restorer's sign-off, Keep On Tugging)KOTFrankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06711334493621537901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-370182032693696367.post-50581303974902671792010-08-26T09:39:41.291-07:002010-08-26T09:39:41.291-07:00It's very clear what is happening here.
(Wikip...It's very clear what is happening here.<br />(Wikipedia):" Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance. They do this by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and actions.[2] Dissonance is also reduced by justifying, blaming, and denying." <br /><br />I'm sure we can also apply this to a young orthodox Jewish man who was petitioning on behalf of EQCA Equality California. Does he see forced circumcision as not being fair or an affront to equality? I'd say no.<br />I support MGMbill.org.<br /><br />There are 280 families in Israel that subscribe to Intact America. At home in the US, we have JewsAgainstCircumcision.org. So many Jews are questioning circumcision and it is my experience being an intactivist* half of those questioning are not circumcising. Circumcision doesn't make one a Jew, being born of a Jewish mother does,. If Jews really knew their circumcision history, I doubt they would be circumcising as circumcision. The Covenant of Abraham, Genesis 15 had nothing to do with circumcision. This was added later, 13 centuries later, in Genesis 17, by priests (P-text). (a Jew, Glick covers everything in his book "Marked i Your Flesh". <br /><br />Thank you for calling out Rabbi Harold Kushner on circumcision.KOTFrankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06711334493621537901noreply@blogger.com