Circumcision is grievous bodily harm, German judges rule

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153. No one is saying that an uncircumcised male child born

to a Jewish mother is 'not a Jew'. Nice attempt at a straw man. But the fact remains the the rite of circumcision is fundamental to Judaism almost universally. It is a covenant between God and the Jewish People and religious Jews believe that failure to perform it has grave religious consequences:

The commandment to circumcise is given at Gen. 17:10-14 and Lev. 12:3. The covenant was originally made with Abraham. It is the first commandment specific to the Jews.

Circumcision is performed only on males. Although some cultures have a practice of removing all or part of the woman's clitoris, often erroneously referred to as "female circumcision," that ritual has never been a part of Judaism.

Like so many Jewish commandments, the brit milah is commonly perceived to be a hygienic measure; however the biblical text states the reason for this commandment quite clearly: circumcision is an outward physical sign of the eternal covenant between G-d and the Jewish people. It is also a sign that the Jewish people will be perpetuated through the circumcised man.

The commandment is binding upon both the father of the child and the child himself. If a father does not have his son circumcised, the son is obligated to have himself circumcised as soon as he becomes an adult. A person who is uncircumcised suffers the penalty of kareit, spiritual excision; in other words, regardless of how good a Jew he is in all other ways, a man has no place in the World to Come if he is uncircumcised.

I personally don't care if the child has a bris or not. But, as I've clearly stated before, I neither accept the right of a German court to tell Jews that believe in the precepts of their religion that they cannot practice it as is their right, nor in the right of others to belittle Jews', or any other religious groups' beliefs in order to champion their own agenda. And that's what has been going on here.