Posts Tagged ‘Hebrew’

Man “seeking God” Circumcises Himself and 4 Year-old Son

Posted by Formo-Mormo on October 16th, 2009 Comments (1)

Does the religious freedom exist to mutilate genatails?

A Vancouver-area father has been found guilty of negligence causing bodily harm after botching a home-circumcision attempt on his four-year-old son as part of a spiritual quest to make things right with God.

This man took it upon himself to try and learn how to do a circumcision because he wanted celebrate Passover.

The man, identified only as D.J.W. to protect the identity of his son, began researching home circumcision on the internet and in the Bible, and by listening to a radio show.

His first attempt to circumcise himself ended up with his foreskin turning black and only part of it cut off. When he couldn’t stop the bleeding, he called an ambulance, and a doctor in a hospital emergency room ended up stitching up the bleeding wound.

And then he went on to botch the circumcision of his 4 Year-old Son.

The man testified in court that, after the boy consented to the circumcision, he fed him some mead — a biblical beverage made from honey — lay him on the kitchen floor, stretched his penis across a cutting board and cut off part of the foreskin.

When asked in court whether the man used ice to ease the boy’s pain, he replied, “Where would the Israelites have found ice?”

He then applied the Wonder Dust, gave the boy some ice cream and told him he could watch whatever movies he wanted that week, before heading off to church, leaving the boy in the care of his mother, who could not stand the sight of blood.

The question is, where would the Israelites have found Wonder Dust? Or refrigerators? Or anything modern that this man uses in his daily life?

Magical thinking can be harmful, the evidence is right here.

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Holy War

Posted by Formo-Mormo on January 15th, 2009 Comments (1)

Let’s be clear about it, if religion didn’t exist, then the current conflict between Hamas and Israel wouldn’t exist. It doesn’t even have to go that far; if some portions of the Torah (the Old Testament to Christians) didn’t exist then this conflict wouldn’t be happening.

Israel is anciently considered a “Holy Land”, and that it was set apart by God to be the homeland for the Hebrew person, thus when modern Israelwas created as a Jewish State in 1947 it was considered by some to be a fulfillment of Gods promise for a holy lands because of the ancient contract between God and his covenant people, the Hebrews.

When it was created as Jewish State, many of the Arabs living there were displaced.

This is a clear division of land, state and power between 2 groups of people; Jews and Arabs.

One group (Jews) feels entitled to the land they live in, partly because of the words in their holy book, the other group (Arabs) resent the Israeli occupation of what they consider to be their holy lands.

If the borders of Israel and the Gaza Strip were merged, and there was no separation of people according to religion and race, would this conflict even be happening?

This conflict, at it’s root, is about difference of beliefs about God, and isn’t that tragic? Take God out of the picture and these are just people with different ethnic backgrounds, with no pre-concieved notions about “heretics” and “gentiles”.

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