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First Do No Harm

Posted on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 13:07

James W. Prescott, Ph.D.

There are no religious rights or freedoms to inflict harm or injury upon another person contrary to the history of religious traditions. From the time of Abraham (Genesis17: 9-14; 22: 1-18; Numbers 31:17-18; Proverbs 23:13-14); to Jesus Christ (John 1: 1-14; 3:16-17); to the Islamic Taliban violence against the human body is a common denominator of the monotheistic religious traditions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

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Genital Mutilation of Children is Torture II

Posted on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 22:00

The First International Symposia On Circumcision in 1989 unanimously declared that the genital mutilation of children is torture. David Levy in a published study in 1945 titled “Psychic Trauma of Operations in Children” described suicidal and homicidal behaviors in a six- year old child consequent to circumcision when he declared: “I wish I were dead” and “played numerous killing games, in which his father was the principal victim”.

Federal Law established Female Genital Mutilation as a crime (PL 104-208), March 30,1997) where the 14th Amendment states “nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”, which extends the criminal sanctions under PL 104-208 to male children, yet to be recognized by the Congress.

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abuse-neglect

brain

circumcision

parenting

pleasure

sensory deprivation

Genital Mutilation of Children is Torture

Posted on Sat, 06/19/2010 - 22:00

Pain and Pleasure has evolved over the millennia to protect, safeguard and promote life in all stages of development. The later bio-cultural evolution of the neocortical brain induced a fatal mal-adaptation that transformed Pain into a moral good and Pleasure into a moral evil. Pain, suffering and deprivation of the Body became essential for personal salvation and Pleasures of the Body were the sources of personal damnation. The theistic religions transformed our body biology into the enemy of earthly existence for the sake of supernatural salvation. This fundamental perversion of evolutionary biology crystallized and reinforced itself in The Crucifixion

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