[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

Covenant shmovenant.
It's just another thing which the bible-writers stole and claimed as their own. From this link shows that circ'ing started in Ancient Egypt, as part of snake worship.
There are wall carvings to prove this.
There are also non-religious (hygeine) reasons for circ'ing.

Therefore, your religion is claiming origin of a custom that started way before you and before the Jewish religion also.

Or are you going to claim that the Egyptians 'pre-stole' this custom?

Good going Rachael. You are starting to understand THE TRUTH. We will make you a good Christian sooner or later.

[Rachael Van Helsing]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

It's perfectly clear and simple. It's there as a sign of the covenant, making it quicker and simpler to separate the Saved from the Unsaved. Come Judgment Day, the Lord will have an awful lot of Judging to be doing, and it's likely to take a while. So He created foreskins as a handy shortcut - He can simply take one glance at the tallywhacker of a soul, and if it's not circumcised, then He can easily toss them into Hell without giving it a second thought. Of course, after that He'll have to sort through all the circumcised souls, to make sure no Christ-Killing Hebrews make it into the Kingdom of Heaven, but it'll still be a lot simpler.

Covenant shmovenant.
It's just another thing which the bible-writers stole and claimed as their own. From this link shows that circ'ing started in Ancient Egypt, as part of snake worship.
There are wall carvings to prove this.
There are also non-religious (hygeine) reasons for circ'ing.

Therefore, your religion is claiming origin of a custom that started way before you and before the Jewish religion also.

Or are you going to claim that the Egyptians 'pre-stole' this custom?

[Virginia Day Templeton]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

Gentle Pastor of the Flock ? I am sure Ted Haggard made a similar claim. Do we have another unrevealed Truth here ?

What's your point? Rev. Haggard is the very quintessence of heterosexual manhood.

[SalvationSeeker]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

I doubt he comprehends the concept of the rhetorical question, SS.

I'm afraid you're right, brother.
I'm starting to dobut he could even begin to comprehend what a rhetorical question is..

He is a transvestite after all, and it is a well known fact, that about 79% of all transvestites score 'retarded' on IQ tests:
That 100% of all transvestites worship satan, and that about 93% of them have AIDS.
(The remaining 7% have simply not developed AIDS yet, but still have HIV.)
So how could any sane person need more proof that God hates them?

[OnYourKnees]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

What are you, retarded??

I doubt he comprehends the concept of the rhetorical question, SS.

[SalvationSeeker]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

Nonsense!
A good hot bubble bath wil clean out the foreskin, but don't play with it too much.

You think you can cure a HIV infection with a hot bubble bath???
What are you, retarded??

[Bozo James (On Moderation)]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

Nonsense!
A good hot bubble bath wil clean out the foreskin, but don't play with it too much.

[Virginia Day Templeton]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

The presence of a foreskin during s*x can increase the chance of HIV infection by as much as 800%, and is connected to many other sexually transmitted diseases and health problems. Now, can you tell me why on Earth such a thing could naturally evolve? Really, tell me.

If anything, God gave men foreskins as a little reminder that evolution is a lie.

[Deaner]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

Gentle Pastor of the Flock ? I am sure Ted Haggard made a similar claim. Do we have another unrevealed Truth here ?

Friend, you're on thin ice. Only women and homers indulge in gossipy innuendo. What exactly are you trying to say?

[SayvedByTheLord]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

Thank you for your gentle guidance in this matter Pastor. I can only find the Truth through questions that will provide me with what I need to learn for Salvation.

Buddy, you need Jesus to smack you upside your head and get a little sense in there. Nothing I said would support the worship of monkeys. My example only showed that God designed humans with other body parts that occasionally need to be snipped off, the better to glorify His name. Do monkeys get a manicure and pedicure every week from a 14 year old Indonesian servant girl? Just stop and think about it.

Fish have bones and so do we. Does that statement make you think you are a trout?

Gentle Pastor of the Flock ? I am sure Ted Haggard made a similar claim. Do we have another unrevealed Truth here ?

[Brother Temperance]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

I was doing some thinking and I have a question for you bible thumpers, similar to my thread on how testicles contradict the idea of intelligent design.

In the bible, the view on circumcision is made perfectly clear:

Genesis 17:10
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

Genesis 17:11
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

Genesis 17:12
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

Genesis 17:13
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

Genesis 17:14
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

Now, if this same biblical deity was indeed an intelligent designer, who not simply design the tallywhacker without the foreskin? Why leave it on there and then add all those extra rules about being circ'ed?
Well?
That hardly seems like intelligent design to me!
What do you bible thumpers have to say to this?

It's perfectly clear and simple. It's there as a sign of the covenant, making it quicker and simpler to separate the Saved from the Unsaved. Come Judgment Day, the Lord will have an awful lot of Judging to be doing, and it's likely to take a while. So He created foreskins as a handy shortcut - He can simply take one glance at the tallywhacker of a soul, and if it's not circumcised, then He can easily toss them into Hell without giving it a second thought. Of course, after that He'll have to sort through all the circumcised souls, to make sure no Christ-Killing Hebrews make it into the Kingdom of Heaven, but it'll still be a lot simpler.

[SalvationSeeker]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

The removal of the foreskin (ie circumcision) is an act that represents a fellowship with God:
But do ALL men have a fellowship with God? No!
Thus, men were not created without foreskin.

It's very simple. Only a dimwitted harlot wouldn't understand it.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

Hmmmm... your example actually gives credibility to evilution. Hair, nails, and foreskin from the apes which we evolved. Troubling, I must go pray for True Guidance.

Buddy, you need Jesus to smack you upside your head and get a little sense in there. Nothing I said would support the worship of monkeys. My example only showed that God designed humans with other body parts that occasionally need to be snipped off, the better to glorify His name. Do monkeys get a manicure and pedicure every week from a 14 year old Indonesian servant girl? Just stop and think about it.

Fish have bones and so do we. Does that statement make you think you are a trout?

[SayvedByTheLord]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

What a ridiculous argument. God made us with hair that needs to be cut, and fingernails that need to be trimmed (at least decent True Christians™ do). Do you really think you know more than God, that you can criticize His divine design?

This is just more tallywhacker envy. All feminazis do it.

Hmmmm... your example actually gives credibility to evilution. Hair, nails, and foreskin from the apes which we evolved. Troubling, I must go pray for True Guidance.

[Rachael Van Helsing]

Re: Circumcision - how do you explain that with intelligent desig

It is to separate the sheep from the goats Rachael; to show you love God you must do something. That's why God put something there that disgusts Him. Your problem is you assume an intelligent designer is going to chose the most optimal design.

And what is wrong with that?
Logically, one would assume that an intelligent designer would choose the most intelligent design, rather than a second-rate one.

And if your god were really real and the creator, he could as easily choose something else.

What a ridiculous argument. God made us with hair that needs to be cut, and fingernails that need to be trimmed (at least decent True Christians™ do). Do you really think you know more than God, that you can criticize His divine design?

Nails need to be trimmed simply because nails are actually a type of excrement. As our bodies get rid of some unneeded things, they actually go into the fingernails.
Gross but true. Same as hair. Only the root of the hair is alive. The rest of the hair is dead.
Oddly enough, both hair and fingernails continue to grow after death. Gross, huh?

This is just more tallywhacker envy. All feminazis do it.

Yeah, I really envy having a messy tube-like thing hanging between my legs, feeling awkward, or maybe having a pair of balls which, if kicked, can temporarily paralyze a man in pain?
Oh, yeah, I'm sooooo envious.