Circumcision Quote by Craig G. Bartholomew

“That is why physical circumcision could never be seen as an end in itself, not even in the Old Testament. It symbolized something deeper:…

— D.A. Carson

Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.

— Brad Sherman

Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of…

— John Stott

“The fixation that believers have about avoiding certain sexual sins extends to the virtual exclusion of everything else. It renders as evil nearly everything…

— Al Stefanelli

Without this heart attitude it is exceedingly difficult for us to accept the circumcision of the flesh. Every affection, desire, thought, knowledge, intent, worship,…

— Watchman Nee

“Our revulsion towards cutting the genitals of girls should give us pause, however, for the themes the Western world abhors – removing part of…

— David L. Gollaher

Circumcision is where sex and violence meet for the first time.

— Jeannine Parvati Baker

“that man was not justified by these things, but that they were given as a sign to the people, this fact shows,—that Abraham himself,…

— The Church Fathers

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt.…

— Nawal El Saadawi

And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male…

— Bible

After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True,…

— Mark Steyn