Walter Russell Mead writes:
German Court Declares Judaism A Crime
Hard to believe, but that’s what the decision handed down by the regional court in Cologne, Germany means: circumcising a child under the age of consent is a crime, notwithstanding the religious beliefs of the parents.
Many judges who loyally served the Third Reich finished their careers in perfect peace and quiet after World War Two; in some cases, they are still collecting pensions for administering Hitler’s laws. However, Germany’s moral sensibilities are so refined and so pure today that the thought of Jewish parents (or Muslims for that matter) performing an immemorial religious rite is unacceptable.
Jews believe that the circumcision of infants is a necessary act; the command to circumcise male children at the age of eight days is the first command that God gives Abraham to mark their covenant; for thousands of years this has been a foundation of Jewish life. To ban infant circumcision is essentially to make the practice of Judaism illegal in Germany; it is now once again a crime to be a Jew in the Reich.
Here is the source.
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No, the court has declared gratuitous child mutilation to be a crime. And so it is, even when the crime is committed at the supposed command of an imaginary supernatural obscenity. Good for the court.
Robert Firth
And you are convinced so strongly that you know this to be true that you are willing to dictate to other people what they should do with respect to the most intensely private areas of faith, conscience and family?
Thus do we see the totalitarian core of atheism.
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