Yeah no same. I wasn't going to go there because I didn't want to start that fight in this thread. I just really don't see how the baby being dead makes this any stranger than if it were alive.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 24 January 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
postmortem baptisms are not a ticket out of purgatory, are they?
― mookieproof, Monday, 24 January 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i think they are, tbh?
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Monday, 24 January 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"if the parents were from some african country and requested that a spiritual leader be allowed to mutilate their baby's corpse would it be looked at the same way?"
Assuming that some creepy witchdoktor decided to write an essay for the Times about it then, yes, I believe it would be.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 24 January 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
ok, cool
― mookieproof, Monday, 24 January 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
last rites etc, not sure if the priest stops giving them if the subject expires halfway through? xp
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Monday, 24 January 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think purgatory's a real place post-JP2.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 24 January 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
more like just a... thing. that you do. i dunno how long it takes.
i mean i realize that we're talking about judaism here so ignore me.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 24 January 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
human beings are all so weird!!
― max, Monday, 24 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
circumcised dicks are so weird!!
― plax (ico), Monday, 24 January 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
somehow thought it would be a good and potentially board-laffs-fruitful idea here to google image search "circumcised ducks"
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 24 January 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
no joke first time i used(?) one i was like "i really have no idea what i'm doing with this"
― plax (ico), Monday, 24 January 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
circumcision has nothing to do with the afterlife and circumcising a dead baby (or even a live baby younger than 8 days old) has no purpose acc to Jewish law. i'm sure it meant a lot to the parents tho.
― Mordy, Monday, 24 January 2011 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
If it would be morally acceptable to cut up a dead child to donate organs then this ceremony, whatever one might think of it personally, if desired by the grieving parents and affording them some solace is surely no worse.
― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Monday, 24 January 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― iatee, Monday, 24 January 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
has ILX done The Circumcision Fight before
― dayo, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yes i believe we argued over whether to leave a tip or not
― gr8080, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
what if the parents also want to have the metzitzah b'peh performed on the corpse baby
― big baller eating steaks every day (jeff), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
does that count as necrophilia?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't get me started.
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link