[W] hen the Lord ordained the ritual of circumcision for males, He arranged for the coagulating proenzyme you call prothrombin to be at 130% of normal adult levels on the eighth day of life, and for natural analgesic enzymes in the blood to be at lifetime highs as well. Circumcision on any other day can be a painful and bloody event, but on the eighth day it's remarkably less so. Of course, this is a fact the medical profession has only learned in the last century. In our day we just knew that everything worked better when we were obedient to God's commands.
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Yeah, and that's more proof of God's evil, demanding the mutilation of little baby boys's penises. That's some sick fucking shit right there, and a great reason not to listen to God's commands.
Just out of curiosity, why would a supposed intelligent designer create a body part that it wanted parents to have lobbed off their son's junk? Wouldn't it be easier to just design a dick without a foreskin? Not to mention, much less traumatic for the victim.
"Circumcision on any other day can be a painful and bloody event, but on the eighth day it's remarkably less so."
Unless you're with Psi Corps, and can telepathically read a male baby's mind whilst he's been circumcised, you'd know this... how ?
Question: What purpose do earlobes serve? [/Comte Balthazar de Bleuchamp]
If your answer is the only one possible, then cut yours off. Now.
...and then your earlobes. [/Lorena Bobbitt] >:D
Even if that was true, which I'm 98% sure it's not, I'd still rather have my foreskin back. But no one ever asked me for my opinion on the matter, hence the real issue of non-life saving non-consensual procedures.
I don't know if that's true, but even if it is, it doesn't prove creation or 'scientific foreknowledge'. All it would prove is that whoever wrote the instructions tried it on a bunch of different days and found out that babies complained less on the eigth day.
[W]hen the Lord ordained the ritual of circumcision for males, He arranged for the coagulating proenzyme you call prothrombin to be at 130% of normal adult levels on the eighth day of life
I want to slap a big [citation needed] on that. According to the literature I've read, newborn babies clotting mechanisms are actually weaker than adults, and it takes about six months after birth for them to mature. Just doing a quick Google search turns up this, for example:
"One hundred fourteen newborn infants were followed for the first 6 weeks of life by specific tests for concentrations of prothrombin, proconvertin and proaccelerin in the blood. The concentration of proaccelerin is usually above normal at birth, while those of the two other factors are below normal and fall further in the first 2 or 3 days as well as showing a secondary dip at some time in the second to the sixth week."
Taken from http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/19/2/241
@ Jerry's troll
Good try.
While I'm recalling from my Maternal and Newborn Health studies that there is some truth to the fact newborn blood start to clot around the 7th-8th day of life (prior to that the gut bacteria needed for Vitamin K production hasn't been introduced enough into their systems, which is why newborns get Vit. K shots), I think Jack here is looking at things backwards. It was likely the fact that a good portion of baby boys circumsized prior to 8 days bled to death that "God" decided that the 8th day was the best day to do it.
Circumcision should only be done for medical reasons, and with the full consent of the subject. Not as part of some religious ritual to an eight day old child. Let them get to 18 and decide if they want to be circumcised.
Disclaimer: I got circumcised for medical reasons at the age of 31. I don't miss my foreskin in anyway whatsoever, but that's because 1. I had a say in the matter, & 2. It's made my life better, but that applies only in cases like mine where there were medical reasons for it.
"When the Lord ordained the ritual of circumcision for males, He arranged for the coagulating proenzyme you call prothrombin to be at 130% of normal adult levels on the eighth day of life, and for natural analgesic enzymes in the blood to be at lifetime highs as well."
God (mumbles to Himself after finishing all that): "Me-damnit! I could've just arranged for males not be born with a foreskin in the first place! Would've been a lot easier for everyone involved!! Oh, well; too late now."
Oh shut up. Why would God create us "in his image" and then require part of Mr. Happy to be lopped off? I wish I'd have had a choice in whether to be circumcised or not, but Mom said that when I was born they didn't have a choice. They just took me away a couple days after I was born and brought me back with a sore wee-wee. At least they did it kind of loose in my case and not super tight to cause problems like in a lot of men.
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