Why would a god decree that Its followers circumcise their infant male children?

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Circumcision involves cutting away the foreskin, flesh from the penis which contains thousands of nerve endings.

Even if a circumcision is performed flawlessly, it's a fact that this nerve tissue is forever lost, leading to reduced sensation during intercourse. If a circumcision is botched, it can lead to scarring and further inhibition of sexual pleasure.

Eventually, medical science may, through stem cell research, for example, enable circumcised men to essentially regrow damaged parts of their anatomy including the penis and foreskin, which many adult males who've been circumcised (myself included) would take advantage of.

It is true that not being circumcised means hygiene is a bit more important, and it's understandable that parents might be a bit squeamish about teaching their son how to clean his penis properly and keep it clean. In other words, some may argue there are practical reasons to circumcise, to make the parents' lives easier.

Conveniently, some religious doctrine states that their respective God insists upon circumcision to appease same.

If a god created us from single cells to walking, talking human beings, why would It then insist upon lopping part of the body off in infancy? Why not just eliminate the foreskin from birth, so that an infant need not go through the painful, bloody process of having this very sensitive tissue sliced away?
No Chance Without Jesus: Well, if you don't have a foreskin now, then how will you be able to know how much better sex *could* be without one to perform rigorous testing with?
Sips With A Fist: Seriously!! Who knows where on or in the goat that herder's hands, let alone knives, have been!
 
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