Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules
woelkchen@lemmy.world 13 hours agoThe whole “hygiene” and circumcision is a myth and a lie.
It’s not like there microbiology science existed thousands of years ago. It may have been a hygiene practice because people thought it was helpful. Bloodletting is BS as well and people thought it helped drain the body’s poisons.
Akuchimoya@startrek.website 10 hours ago
Bloodletting is therapeutic… for some very specific conditions. For example, hemochromatosis, where the body has too much iron, and there has been some preliminary study that blood donations are a way to reduce the amount of PFAS in blood.
But everyone has PFAS in their blood; not every male has (beyond normal) phimosis.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
From the context it’s 100% clear that I meant the medieval practice, before modern science.