Why didn't Moses enforce circumcision?

[MAC daddy]

Originally Posted by Fionn mac Cumh

What puzzles me more is why people get it done today.

Originally Posted by mfblume

Physically speaking it is far more hygienic. But there is no spiritual requirement.

Originally Posted by FlamingZword

Prevents cancer.

looks cool?

[Esaias]

Another group of researchers published that intact men (in the same demographic) were 3.2 times more likely to have penile cancer. [8] However when we consider that circumcision removes about half of the skin on the penis [9-10], we see that the benefit is only slightly greater than the amount of tissue removed. The benefit provided by circumcision is further reduced if phimosis is properly diagnosed and treated. Phimosis is diagnosed in adults, not children [11]; it is a condition where the foreskin does not retract to allow proper hygiene; it affects about 1% of intact men [12]. Phimosis is easily treatable; treatment costs are low, and most of the time surgical intervention is unnecessary. [13-15] Another group of researchers suggests that phimosis increases the risk of penile cancer by a factor of 16. [16] When phimosis is factored out, intact men are actually half as likely to have invasive penile cancer as circumcised men, as acknowledged by the American Academy of Pediatrics:
In fact, in men with an intact prepuce and no phimosis, there is a decreased risk of invasive penile cancer (OR: 0.5). [This] suggests that the benefit of circumcision is conferred by reducing the risk of phimosis. [17]
Considering that phimosis is easily treated, circumcision actually increases the risk of penile cancer.

Source: - http://www.savingsons.org/2013/07/ci...le-cancer.html

[Esaias]

Western medical circumcision is not Biblical circumcision. Western medical circumcision is not performed on the 8th day after birth, is not performed for the express purpose of being identified in the Sinaitic Covenant, and removes far more tissue than was removed in Biblical circumcision.

If you have been medically circumcised in a western hospital, you have not been 'circumcised' in the Biblical sense, you have simply been medically mutilated.