Circumcision: a Pillar of American ignorance

[SD-Fiend]

Oi! This Brit got it for medical reasons thank you very much!
And Circumcision isn't American anyway!

not to be rude but the point of the argument is about infant circumcision without medical reason.I think it's a bit of useless procedure anyways but it really doesn't matter if you get it cut off or not as an infant you can still live life normally with or without it. It's not my problem anyways it won't ever affect me or the way I live.

 

[DarthAcerbus]

You're saying India, the second most populous country in the world, and easily the most religious, isn't a world power?

Religion isn't fairing any better, as the last bastion (America) is sliding down the path to Atheism/Deism. Its happening much quicker than anyone realized. circumcision rates dropped like a rock in America in the last 10 years.

I take issue with this statement. America as the last bastion of religion? America actually has a smaller Christian population (percentage-wise) that most of South America (not to say that America doesn't have a large religious population, because it does). And how about the entire Middle East, Africa, and India. And some quick internet digging reveals that approximately 90% (on the high end) of the world's population is religious, so yeah. I don't think religion is as shaky and fragile as you might think.

I was focusing more on world powers than anything. The smaller countries, especially when its the third world middle east and Africa, will have religion but they cannot exude that on the world.

So India, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai in particular) aren't world powers?

 

[DarthAcerbus]

You're saying India, the second most populous country in the world, and easily the most religious, isn't a world power?

Religion isn't fairing any better, as the last bastion (America) is sliding down the path to Atheism/Deism. Its happening much quicker than anyone realized. circumcision rates dropped like a rock in America in the last 10 years.

I take issue with this statement. America as the last bastion of religion? America actually has a smaller Christian population (percentage-wise) that most of South America (not to say that America doesn't have a large religious population, because it does). And how about the entire Middle East, Africa, and India. And some quick internet digging reveals that approximately 90% (on the high end) of the world's population is religious, so yeah. I don't think religion is as shaky and fragile as you might think.

I was focusing more on world powers than anything. The smaller countries, especially when its the third world middle east and Africa, will have religion but they cannot exude that on the world.

So India, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai in particular) aren't world powers?

Not the ones I am referencing. I never heard of any of them pushing Europe around like America does. India, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the UAE all keep to themselves relative to America. The kind of power I am referencing requires a lot of influence, influence those countries just cant pull.

You'll remember that India and Pakistan are nuclear powers that hate each other, big deals on the world stage. And a country with a population as large as India is gonna have a pretty damn big influence on the world. Saudi Arabia is throwing its weight around as a major oil exporter, and the de facto leader of the Arab League. The UAE, meanwhile, is a major, major economic player in the world. These countries (ok maybe not Pakistan) have huge amounts of influence. Maybe not on the same scale as the US or China, but more than a lot of European countries.

 

[Rodrigo Girao]

Well, to a westerner, those countries' cultural relevance will seem quite limited, regardless of actual geopolitical relevance.

But that's beside the thread's main subject.