Feast of the Circumcision

       Feast of the Circumcision?  That is what it was at one time. It might be interesting to note when it was that the Roman church changed it to the feast of the Holy Name. In their puritanical, prudish, unhealthy sexuality, there should be no mention at all of the Christ child's private parts. Circumcision? How revolting! And so the Roman church that exerts every influence it can, holds to unhealthy sexual norms and policies born of man, not God, and tortures the souls of healthy sexual human beings around the globe.

       The gay community is not saved from the controversy of circumcision either. The practice to cut ( or leave uncut ) is a formidable controversy that also plagues the heterosexual community as well.

       The reality of the situation is that to a nomadic people wandering or living in sandy desert terrain, circumcision was a no brainer.  It meant good health, not unlike the need for ancients to avoid pork products to remain in good health.   But times have changed for sure. One can easily eat pork without fear of getting trichinosis. I know many Jews that love a nice BLT. Is circumcision really a necessity also? Not so much any more, at least we are not living in desert conditions for the most part. However, I really don't want to delve into the controversy of cut or uncut, feast day or not.  Not my area of expertise and that is generally not what I write about or meditate on. 

       What you will find on my page today is a call to spend the new year asking why we do the things we do, especially in relation sexuality, to religion and God. They are most often not the same. I am calling for a purifying of our personal faith and religious habits.  What I find most important, and what is the arbiter of all Scripture, especially when passages contradict each other?  Love. Love is always that arbiter.

        Perhaps a New Year's resolution might be to question and purify. Don't take what you are being taught at face value. Question. Learn. And always, love.

Luke 2:15-21

 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.’ So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the child lying in the manger.When they saw this, they made known what had been told them about this child; and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them. But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.

 After eight days had passed, it was time to circumcise the child; and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.