"I am a jealous God, who prosecute the crime of fathers upon children up to…" great-grandfathers...
(PARIS, France) - In ancient times, John the Baptist and Jesus, among the first, gave their lives for baptism by water rather than by the traumatism of the "original" punishment of the prime erection. For rebels, it leads straight off to that of the cross. Since then, numerous attempts of abolishing circumcision occurred.
The most elaborated one was that of German Reform rabbis, in the middle of the 19th century, for socio-political and legal reasons: a criminal assault against the child, the custom isolates the Jews, and also religious ones: the Book of Deuteronomy (the Book of Moses, and thus the Ten Commandments) does not prescribe it, Moses opposed that of his son (Exodus, 4: 24-26), it was not practised under his reign (it was set back into practice for men only, after his death, in Gilgal – Joshua, 5: 2-9), there is no (no longer) equivalent for girls (cf. Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jerusalem: Keter publishing house limited; 1972. t. V, p. 571).
Previous to Moses, worshipers of the masculine phallus and contemptuous of the feminine one, the Egyptians practised, and still do, upon both sex children, the most terrible repression that can be imagined of infantile sexuality (a scientific discovery by Freud). Spanking hits behind what is so gently done in front.
Strikes accompany it, up to the Spine Crown and the Cross, as taught by Max Ernst: The Virgin thrashing the Child Jesus in front of three witnesses: André Breton, Paul Eluard and the painter. Köln: Museum Ludwig (the fallen halo hints at the cut off foreskin). For sexual mutilation (ISM) castrates the child of the specific organs of autosexuality. It was imposed on the Jews as a measure of enslavement. After having freed them, Moses could not tolerate that some would carry on these barbarous customs.
Thinking that the denudation of the glans makes the phallus a fetish and that a "jealous" God cannot admit idolatry of a phallus in seemingly permanent erection through circumcision ("It's so much prettier!"), he denounces, through the 2nd Commandment, chapter 17 of the Book of Genesis. In the same vein, after having killed the Egyptian murderer (Exodus, 2: 11-12), the son of Bedouins chooses nomadism praised by nowadays Jewish writers, rather than genocide of his brothers. This was fatal to him; according to Freud and a few Egyptologists, keeping his skin whole could not save it from the Levites.
Similarly deeming circumcision "a barbarous and bleeding rite" (quoted by the Dictionnaire encyclopédique du judaïsme. Paris: Editions du cerf; 1993. p. 433), Abraham Geiger and his Mosaic, democrat and feminist friends founded the first post-Renaissance Jewish movement refusing circumcision. It was an outcry in the community – orchestrated by Hirsh (one of the founders of Zionism).
Though having perfectly understood Moses, the reformist could not believe their eyes of the falsification of one of the Ten Commandments. When the rabbinical authorities answered their arguments, most dissidents came back to circumcision, after twenty years resistance. But the "heresy" gained the United States where some practise non-mutilating nomination. The falsification here denounced hides that the 2nd Commandment forbids circumcision and that God seems to have changed his mind between both Covenants. It interprets the following verses:
"For I, the Eternal, your God, I am a jealous God, who prosecute the crime of fathers upon children up to the third and fourth generation, for those who offend me, and who spread my benevolence to the thousandth, for those who love me and keep my commandments." (Exodus, 20: 5-6, French Rabbinate translation (literally translated). Paris: Les éditions Colbo; 1966), as if they said: "… who punish children for the crimes of fathers" but:
1, if the sentence had this meaning, its would also have this construction,
2, the version of the 2nd Commandment in the Book of Deuteronomy (5: 8) rubs out the terms "upon children". But how could the most sacred text of the Torah since carved by God in person upon stone tables, have varied? The Book of the Exodus, well-known to the people, could only be falsified intellectually. The thing was favoured by the blue-pencilling in the Book of Deuteronomy, a book of priests, easy to modify. The cut making could be operated at the return from the exile in Babylon, at the time of the alleged discovery of the manuscript buried in the temple. It enabled the setting back into force of circumcision that had to be abandoned in the jails of Nebuchadnezzar; it was a custom of the "Egyptians", his worst enemies (cf. Sabbah M. and R. The secrets of the Exodus. London: Thorsons Ltd; 2002. New York: Helios press; 2004).
3, the text does not say "the crimes" but "the crime", a precise, well-known crime upon children...: sexual mutilation,
4, asserting that God punishes children for the crimes of fathers, the orthodox interpretation gives the term "jealous" the aberrant meaning of suspicious till the injustice of condemning children and grand-children irresponsible for paternal criminality. The just will not allow such interpretation; a jealous God is jealous of his own creation, which man may not alter,
5, besides, one could not understand why a punishment of criminality applied to the whole family would dead abate at the fourth generation. On the other hand, it is natural that the punishment of circumcising criminals could not be applied beyond great-grandfathers,
6, it duplicates the 6th Commandment: "Do not commit homicide.",
7, the 2nd, at the contrary, brings out mutilative paedo-sexual criminality as very particularly reprehensible. Moses was aware of the gravity of mass crimes, striking a whole part of the population, children in the case in point. Justly locating sexual mutilation amongst crimes against creation (humanity), he distinguishes it from ordinary crime. Similarly, God forbade circumcision to Mohamed (Koran: 16: 89, 30: 30 and 4: 118-119) and the Koran (3: 84) shares the Mosaic conception, both theological and humanitarian, of respect of the physical integrity, dignity, privacy and modesty of the child,
8, consequently, for the first time in history, a legislator enacts an imprescriptible penalty, striking the elderly years after their crime,
9, a few verses below the 2nd Commandment, the Bible enlightens it:
"If however you build a stone altar for me, do not build it with carved stones for by touching them with the iron, you made them lay. You must not either go up on my altar through degrees so that your nudity does not uncover itself there (let us not that Moses, in shrewd sexologist, advocates capped penetration)." (Exodus, 20: 21-23)
10, at last, abolishing sexual mutilation, Moses tolls the bell of the inhuman discrimination inflicted upon all those who fought to defend the respect of their children's physical integrity: "exclusion from the people" that dares institutionalizing the racism of the "elected", the worst since an allegedly identity one.
The meaning of the divine periphrasis was therefore denatured. In order to hide that the expression: "the crime of fathers" aimed at sexual mutilation, their supporters – and blind victims – cleverly twisted it through blasphemous introducing an inexistent double meaning.
We owe the great Jewish liberator and legislator, an enemy of slavery and barbarity, the invention, against infantile sexual mutilation, of the concept of crime against humanity, with imprescriptible penalty. Abolishing Abraham's, the 2nd and 6th make the Ten Commandments: the first historical declaration of the duties and rights of man, a declaration of the right of the child and the human person to the first of their rights: that to physical integrity and property of their body. It forbids every mutilation without grave and strictly medical motive. Religions and animisms valuing one hair of a child less than temples, books and oral tradition, would deserve seeing them destructed or forgotten. This is a summary; read the whole article at http://intactwiki.org
Sigismond (Michel Hervé Bertaux-Navoiseau) – oldsigismund@hotmail.com – researcher in psychoanalysis, a specialist of ISM, author of "Sexual mutilation, the child's point of view", available free at http://intactwiki.org and http://groups.msn.com/circabolition
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