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On 12 Aug 2006 17:04:32 -0700, "Zac" <zaccircd@yahoo.com> wrote:

>The Reverend wrote:
>> It may have made sense in the desert 5000 years ago when diseased
>> foreskins dropped off with alarming regularity,
>
>How do you know they dropped off with regularity? 

Where do you think the first savage to circumcise another savage got
the idea from?

> Maybe the diseases
>killed their hosts.

It's unlikely.  

>> but male/female genital mutilation makes absolutely no sense today, when running
>> water is widely available.
>
>Mutilation makes no sense. But it's not mutilation, it's circumcision,

Circumcision *is* mutilation.  Western countries are beginning to
realise that female circumcision is mutilation.  It's only a matter of
time before they realise that male circumcision is too.

>and running water doesn't help even when it's widely available. That's
>my experience and everything I've ever read about the matter.

You have to educate ragheads to wash.

>Plus, water is eventually going to be harder to come by in many places
>(war, global warming, natural disasters), so circumcision makes sense
>to deal with those realities of life.

Without water, man will die.  It's as simple as that.