Circumcision Violates the Ten Commandments

Modified from a document by the late Van Lewis, Harvard graduate and pioneer intactivist.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Blasphemy is putting ourselves in God’s place, putting ourselves above God, saying that we know better than God how to design human sex organs. This violates the first commandment.

Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

Circumcising is idolatry. The second commandment is an explicit prohibition against circumcising. We know that Moses forbade circumcision because after Moses died Joshua circumcised all the males of forty and under at the Hill of Foreskins. Forty and under? Moses led the Hebrews in the wilderness for forty years. None were circumcised after leaving Egypt under his leadership. He would not allow it. The second commandment forbade it.

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

When man claims that God commanded the mutilation of childrens’ sexual organs, that is using God’s name in vain.

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.

?Circumcising on the sabbath desecrates the sabbath, and violates this commandment. Read John 7.

Honor thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

A father and mother who follow Moses’, the Ten Commandments’, and God’s prohibition against genital mutilation will be honored by knowledgeable children and deserve to be, but those who fail their children in this fundamental way may find the honor they seek from their children elusive. Honoring one who mutilates your sex organs for life can be extraordinarily difficult to achieve.

Thou shalt not kill.

Many infants die after a circumcision every year. Often the death is not recorded as a circumcision death. In a 6 pound infant, the loss of 5 teaspoons of blood can send the infant into shock.

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Adultery is engaging in sexual relations with someone other than one’s own married partner. Circumcision is usually a married person engaging in a genitally mutilative sexual relationship with an infant. This is adultery, by definition.

Neither shalt thou steal.

Doctors and hospitals are stealing human body parts from infants, and selling them on the open market. Foreskins are used to make artificial skin, cosmetics and face cream. Corporations make millions; the infants are paid nothing. This trade in human foreskins is stealing.

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.

The lies told about foreskins by the medical community in the attempt to justify mutilating the infant is bearing false witness.

Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbor’s.

When one has lost one’s sexual integrity and normality, and others have not, it is easy to covet what the genitally intact man has. This leads men into medicine, where they are protected while they violate this commandment.

A circumciser suffers from an empathy deficit, a lack of compassion, and a denial of the importance of what he is doing to an infant.?

All Ten Commandments are violated by this cruel, senseless act.