SVH78 you may not think that a module in a degree course is enough for me to comment on a particular religion - why is that? I've read academic works about major world religions (including Islam and Judaism), attended lectures given by academics and written essays. Let me tell you that it doesn't take long studying any of the major organised religions of the world to see that there is very little to separate them and that they are all about control, fiction and superstition.
Anyway, that aside, you could live to be 1000, do as much "research" as you like, canvas opinions from as many people as you like and you'd still never be able to gain any understanding whatsoever of what it feels like to undergo and recover from the procedure that you're planning to inflict on your poor unborn child. You will never know anything about it what it feels like. It matters not one jot that all the men you know can't remember the pain they experienced. That does not make it alright. Nor does it matter that they have no complaints about thier sex lives. They have only ever been sexually active since being circumcised so that's a complete and utter non-argument too.
Scrolling back over things you've said since I was last on, I must admit, I've now discovered that you are little more than a selfish hypocrite and this actually makes what you're planning to do to your poor unborn child far, far worse in my view.
On Thu 06-Jan-11 at 15:15:26 the eminently sensible QBEE referred to you as a "religious/cultural pick and mixer". She was absolutely spot on.
Now if you were a poor, brow-beaten, down-trodden woman who felt she had no choice but to comply with what her deeply patriarchal community/religion dictated, or even if you were a real blinkered religious zealot, I wouldn't like it, and wouldn't find it easier to justify what you're doing but I might find it a little easier to understand.
However, when at 23:01 on 5-1-11 you said:
"I am married to a liberal Jew against the wishes of my community and those of my faith so I am not at all one to be brainwashed or 'deluded'.
And said previously:
"my DH is Jewish but not particularly religious (otherwise he wouldn't be married to me!) so his choice is not guided by societal pressure to fit in."
People can see you as the "religious/cutural pick and mixer" that QBEE so incisively pointed out you are.
It makes some of the things you have said here an utter crock of shite.
Things like:
On 4-1-11 at 15:32:
"We have made the decision to circumcise our son for religious reasons"
On 4-1-11 at 14:58:
"People who circumcise for religious reasons do so because they believe that that is what God wants - what better reason could there be?!
On 4-1-11 at 15:57:
"When a person has faith, he/she follows what is commanded in the holy book/laws and does not have to ask why. The reason is that it is what was ordered to be done and that is a good reason for people of faith."
What is nearer the truth is what you said on 06-Jan-11 at 15:34:
"The starting point for us with religious rules is that we follow them unless we can see a good enough reason why we shouldn't."
and on 6-1.11 at 16:05:
Our religions see many things as necessary which we don't follow, it doesn't mean that we don't think that they are necessary, just that we choose not to comply with those 'necessities'.
What a shame that one of things the pair of you consider to be so "necessary" is inflicting unnecessary pain and harm on your own child.
It seems neither of you consider it "necessary" to adhere to any rules, complusions or principles when deciding who you want to have sex with and choose to marry.
Apparently your minded principles and piety go right out of the window when it comes to deciding what's best for yourselves.