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From: stephen@alberta.UUCP (Stephen Samuel)
Newsgroups: net.women.only,net.religion
Subject: Re: "sexist" surgery
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Date: Tue, 10-Jan-84 22:54:33 EST
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....	Maybe it makes sense as a `trade' for some kind of `spiritual
	bonus' -- provided, of course, you're Jewish or Islamic.  But
	why does America's male-dominated, largely Christian-derived
	society mutilate the majority of its own male offspring with
	this `sexist surgery'?

	-michael
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The reason why is that Christianity was, in the beginning, a sect
of the jewish religion which believed (unlike other jews) that the
"messiah" had come.  
  It is for that reason that the christian faith also holds onto
many other jewish customs (eg: The sabath and the old testament).

	Stephen Samuel
	 (alberta!stephen)