Nico Carlucci
Europeans do not know that a large number of Americans are circumcised. Some time ago I tried to explain this practice of anthropologists who blinded by the "universality of history" have come to not understand what I was saying. In them it was assumed that those who were baptized could not be circumcised. In reality, the people of the USA knows, experiences of both rites.
This makes the Americans once more "exceptional" since the two attitudes in the past and in different cultures, they even fought.
Here I will try to explain the reasons that accompany this sacred practice. I do not think the pseudo-scientific explanations that are given to justify the circumcision in the United States: penis reasons cleaning, removal from diseases and disorders.
This should open up even more eyes on the obviousness of culture and the implicit removal of the Sacred. Latter 'is decoded to not leave it in the coercion and subjugation of its rules.
A story "short"!
Nell 'antiquities were some tribes of North Africa that "affect" one's body. This is, for example, among the Egyptians who are affiliated to Ra, the Sun God, who had circumcised himself
In ancient Rome the Jews were circumcised called "Curtis" in order to emphasize the mutilation of their penises was going through the removal of the foreskin.
Israel, Israel sacrificed the male sexual organ par excellence, their "shoot flowered" by ratifying, thus, the covenant between God and his people "elected (Genesis, 17, 11-4).
Romans, conversely, that the body had done their "inalienable whole," were far from this "offer God "to which St. Peter's, for example, would not give up.
origins of Christianity, there was, in fact, a major dispute between Peter and Paul concerning circumcision and baptism. Which of the two rites would have "started" really Christian?
Paul won the greek-roman world and therefore no mutilation of the body, the water of baptism, which ended up making participant of public life, finally, women.
For Muslims, circumcision is an essential act of faith, suggested by Mohammed in the "Sunna, the sayings of the Prophet explaining the Koran. The origin of the ritual can be traced back, as with the Jews, for Abraham, who at 80 years autocirconcide.
Protestants and Jews in the name of 'America
But Americans are WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) that is baptized Christians yet their newborn is circumcised and is, thus, implicitly, society of Men. It 's still Protestantism, in fact, in its various denominations, to have a majority in the U.S. (51.3 percent) despite the extraordinary success of other religions. Wasps are in power and exercise it and encode in different sectors: industrial, economic, military, academic and social. Although the population in stars and stripes change color and is enhanced by new ethnic groups, the rules Yankee culture, ultimately, are still those of the founding fathers: "He who will introduce the principles of Christianity in public affairs will change the face of the world" (Benjamin Franklin, 1779). This happened yesterday, this happens today.
Bruce Springsteen sings during the presidential campaign this way: "It 's putting the best of human qualities - respect for others, honesty towards oneself, faith in our ideals - that we are born as a nation in the eyes of God' so that our soul as a nation and as individuals, occurs "-
America, while you become attached to its foundation myth, which still, weaves his political life to religious roots, Christian and Puritan. As shown
Jean-François Colosimo God forms the country's civil society through rituals, dogma and temples. It 's his symbolic vocabulary and a "spectacular" ("God is American teodemocrazia the United States", Milan, 2009, JacaBook).
But Protestantism, as we know, absolute, intersects with Judaism and becomes, well, into something else, different from Europe where he started and also from the same Judaism in the Middle East.
Jefferson refers to Israel just in his second inaugural speech and at the same time participant in Puritanism.
addition, to substantiate his candidacy, Barack Obama also called on the biblical story of the Jews from slavery output. From all this we can understand why the Americans are a people of circonsisi and baptized.
Americans, therefore, made by people outside the countries where they were born, settled into a new "promised land", land of abundance and blessing.
It 's a new model of ancient Israel and dominating the American consciousness, God's chosen people that is evoked when its President speaks also to justify the war. American people so that circumcised women are roughly a penis that is not.
The corn flakes Kellogg
John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943) was a physician who made history as the inventor of corn flakes food from the famous brand that bears his name. He was a doctor, a native of Michigan who worked for many years in a sanatorium. Kellogg
belonged to the religion of the Seventh-Day Adventist, Protestant church and as Jews observe the Sabbath as a day of divine rest.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is for sexual abstinence and beyond, including alcohol and tobacco should be avoided.
Kellogg became hard supporter of the principles of his Church. Like others, believed that circumcision would prevent the reduce masturbation, he said, the sexual stimulation. Inventing cornflakes, Dr. Kellogg believed their practice to combat this "lonely" of American males who wore asthma, insomnia, to epilepsy. From
vegetarian nutritionist, added to the diet even paradoxically "penaut butter, peanut butter is widespread in American pop culture.
Now
In the current debate is also the view of those who are against this practice. Some people, for the first time in America, speaks about ablation of the foreskin, of mutilation, consideration of sacrifice of the male body, violence becomes "unjust" if he is the child having to suffer.
win, but those who insist that circumcision is used to clean the penis to prevent disease.
back to playing the rules of the Sacred, the coordinates that redraw the lines of the White Anglo Saxon Protestant "is now attacked from many sides, internally and externally, the last stock market crisis, the election of a black president, the 'desire to reform health care for all, the attack on the Twin Towers, the advance of China.
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