Elizabeth  
I'm sorry but like I can't reconcile the whole "humans were made in God's image" but also like "yeah you need to cut the skin off the baby's wang because God said so even though he created them with that in the first place" thing.
Mar 25 at 5:36amWeb
Show threadGadfly (-booq-)4d ago

@Elizafox Okay to be clear this isn't arguing with you because it doesn't matter to me (and also I'm an atheist so I'm not even sure I disagree with the general thrust),

but this is pretty reconcileable with preexisting theological moves,
using the "so that we can -- in the image of god -- likewise participate in the act of creation".

Which I'm bringing up just because it's a cool piece of theologizing that I think it's nice if more people knew it.

Show threadGadfly (-booq-)4d ago

@Elizafox EDIT:
Okay amusingly (to me if no one else), apparently the circumcision question in particular is actually the ORIGINAL CONTEXT of that quote, itself.

https://www.etzion.org.il/en/tanakh/torah/sefer-vayikra/parashat-tazria/perfecting-nature

Perfecting Nature | Yeshivat Har Etzion

The biblical context of the mitzva of mila seems to be disorderly. Why the strange literary form?

Yeshivat Har Etzion
Show threadocdtrekkie4d ago

@Elizafox ...As a Christian, I have no idea either. I guess it's like... a tradition now... but like one where immediately on the birth of your child you need to make a lifelong decision about an elective procedure on their parts?

I don't know if it’s *the* weirdest thing believers do, but it's probably high up there?

Show threadocdtrekkie4d ago
@Elizafox I will never not get the fact that people treat something like this as a must but then, you know, that whole "love your neighbor" and "feed the poor" thing, eh, clearly isn't that crucial. Carrying on a weird tradition is a performative way to indicate goodness without having to do any of that inconvenient loving people stuff.
Show threadElizabeth  4d ago
@ocdtrekkie it’s weirder still that Christians (mostly Protestants) have it done to their kids, because it’s part of the old covenant! It’s entirely old law and the proscription does not apply to Christians at all. Even Paul said it’s not necessary.
Show threadocdtrekkie4d ago
@Elizafox Yeah I don't think a single person doing this thinks "this is what God calls me to do", it's just... a thing we do. Practice utterly detached from faith.