Babies have died from circumcision. And it is not true that the removed skin has no functions. It has many. The Bible tells us that circumcision is not necessary, so why do it? It's not done in my country, except by the Jews. Roman Catholics in general don't do it either and there are Christian movements trying to raise awareness of the dangers of circumcision. Any voluntary surgery carries risk and to put a healthy baby through it for nothing is wrong, in my opinion.

Russ, I do read the Bible. I have 3 Bibles, all different, and once including the Apocrypha. Jesus fulfilled the law and have us one most important command - "love one another".

He said it's not the food we eat or how we eat it that makes us unclean, but the nasty words that come out of our mouths, and the NT makes it clear circumcision is meaningless.

I don't think there is much point speculating when the end of the world will come. People have been doing that for centuries and they always think it will be in their lifetime or soon after. Most likely this planet will last for many more centuries. What matters, in my opinion, is taking care of the world so we can hand it on in better shape to the next generation.

Prophecy is so much like horoscopes or Nostradamus. You can read virtually anything into something that is cryptic i.e. whore of Babylon is Roman Catholic Church. Not only is there risk of error, but great risk of prejudice i.e. those who do interpret it this way will thus bear negative feelings towards the church and encourage others to do so, when in fact they may be wrong, and I believe are. Its a dangerous game to start applying cryptic things to races and organizations.