The Greek Influence on the Ban on Circumcision San Francisco

A guy came to my stand yesterday and started talking about the sharpness of his kitchen knives but then turned to the subject of Moyles. I allowed as yes they must have very sharp knives and it might be interesting to talk to one. But then he turned to San Francisco where it will be illegal for moyles to circumcise. He had lived in England and San Francisco I was about to tell him the little known fact that all of the British royalty had been circumcised by Moyles but the conversation to the general subject of the wide new acceptance of gays and how this wouldn't even of been thought about going back twenty or thirty years ago. I got busy and he could see and left but then after he left I got to thinking about it all that the whole thing is not really new but came out of a ancient conflict between Hebrew and the Greek culture.

The Greeks had a whole plethora of cultural agenda and were in their day advancing on the whole rest of the world. they were on the one hand very puritanical and on the other very promiscuous, Greek dualism I think it is called. They were obsessed by the human body. They had gymnasiums where athletes would exercise strenuously in the nude. Athletes means nude I've been told. And so they ere in conflict with other cultures like the Hebrews.

The Hebrews annoyed the Greeks with their different library and language and also not the Greek obsession with the body and the Greek sexual practices. And central to their conflict was the Hebrew circumcision. The Greeks when they conquered Israel forbade circumcision and had as a punishment to hang the dead baby around the neck of the parents. It was a brutal situation and the Jews under the Maccabees rebelled. The Greeks came back and won eventually. But I maintain this is the real source of the current conflict in San Francisco.

Greek culture today dominates Western culture. We have Greek influenced architecture in Washington DC. We have a very Greek influenced education and religion with the concept of lectures and sermons which are really the contuation of the Greek Sophiests the Greek philosopher entertainers that dominated the Greek world. So is it any wonder that this idea has come up again and is in conflict.