Outlaw Circumcision – Why do we allow people to mutilate the bodies of
their children? This is little short of being allowed to sell them, and it’s
worse than beating them, because mutilation never heals. There is no
good argument in favor of circumcision. (if you dispute this, please
check out my earlier blog on the subject or the excellent Islamic web
site.
If you think it is done for cleanliness, just teach the child to wash. We
don’t cut off people’s hands because they might use them instead of
toilet paper. If it’s to prevent a future problem, then we should be
taking out every child’s appendix and tonsils and maybe even the
prostate gland for men, as those are magnitudes higher in terms of
potential danger to a human being. But we don’t do this. While religion
may condone it, let’s not forget what else religion has condoned:
stoning, genocide, slavery, rapists, disfigurement, and the sale of
daughters. We have shown that we are better than that, and those
religious-sanctioned brutalities have gone by the way in most
societies. The physical mutilation of children should also go into the
dustbin of history. It’s a barbaric disgrace to human rights and should
be outlawed.
No Exemptions for Kosher and Halal Animal Slaughter – If you tell me
that this is somehow more humane, then you probably have never
seen animals commercially being killed. Just think about it for a
second. The whole reason for this ritual slaughter is to keep the animal
alive as long as possible so that the blood drains out of the meat while
the animal is still conscious. This all stems from a taboo about blood
(they have taboos that relate to menstrual blood too). That is the
purpose. Some apologist websites will claim that after the throat is slit
the animal is then rendered immediately unconscious, but there is no
monitoring of this and they do not acknowledge any standards for this
practice. Also, they are supposed to say a prayer at the time of
slaughter, so it depends on how fast they can talk I suppose.
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