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The modern American practice does have its roots in Christianity. The logic goes:
Masturbating is sinful and must be discouraged.
If we remove the foreskins of boys, they won't masturbate.
Ergo, we should remove their foreskins.
This reasoning is no longer applied, of course. Most people don't care if boys masturbate, and those who do realize circumcision won't stop them. It's something done because it's just considered normal, I imagine.
A reasonably balanced view of US circumcision on the Internet? I'm shocked.
That is not correct, Christianity has been around for 20 centuries. So why is it that only that in the 19th century people started doing that? The answer is that Fauci-like 'doctors' started claiming that it is bad for your health to masturbate, and that mutilation is actually good.
Perhaps nobody thought of it before. Perhaps they found the idea their sons might be mistaken for Jews distasteful.
Nobody thought of it before? Really? This barbaric practice is all over the Bible, but it never came to anyone's mind?
And if they did not want their sons mistaken for Jews, that seems to suggest that Christianity was getting it right.