Did God invent circumcision to take sexual pleasure away?

Did God invent circumcision to take sexual pleasure away? Oct 20, 2017 20:10:53 GMT

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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Oct 20, 2017 20:10:53 GMT

Oct 20, 2017 8:03:04 GMT OldSamVimes said:

Oct 20, 2017 7:27:33 GMT filmfan95 said:

Holy cow, the kinds of things people think up. Haha. I'm amused in many ways by this thread.

Anyway, masturbation isn't a sin. There isn't a single passage of scripture that even alludes to it. There are tons of laws condemning all sorts of sexual practices that I had never even heard of until I read those parts, and I would think that if God had a problem with masturbation, he wouldn't have hesitated to inspire Moses to write "Thou shalt not touch thyself."

And I'm a Christian too.

Agreed.

In fact, one could argue that because of the hands close proximity to the groin area God has implied through creation that masturbation is natural and to be encouraged.

Or, that natural selection favored humans with that hand/groin proximity, and clearly the species hasn't died out because of 'touching themselves'. (And that also leaves a god out of it entirely!) Win/win!

Edit: OSV, didn't that phrase, or an observation close to it, appear in Christopher Hitchen's book "god is not great"?