Nonsense again, as expected. The diversions were comments similar to others replying to me, deviating from the arguments raised. Yours was more or less the same as theirs, and hence, the “usualness” of the replies.
Anyway, when I asked ZC the following:
“To distill all of your words, you agree that it is within the rights of the cited Jewish parents ordering the performing of the eighth-day circumcision of the prematurely born child, thereby endangering its life, in keeping with their cultural, dogmatic beliefs.”
ZC replied to it in comment #70:
“I agree that Halakhah should be followed, whatever it is. And they aren’t “cultural, dogmatic beliefs,” Charlie. They’re Divine commandments.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2902506/posts?page=70#70
Now, PA Engineer, do you believe it is in the right of someone holding an opinion similar to ZC’s, to endanger the life of a prematurely-born male child by forcing it to undergo an 8th-day circumcision?
Would you allow such a couple to “follow the commandments” or would you put the life of the child ahead of their personal religious beliefs?
The answer to this is the core argument of this entire thread.