Choose This Day Whom You Will Serve!!!
As we go into the 23rd chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy, let us place strong emphasis on the 1st verse in this chapter. We must remember that there is nothing new under the sun. “He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD”.
Deliberate bodily mutilation had been practiced by pagan cultures for years. In some cultures, involuntarily perpetrated against men and woman, but in others and as it is done today, male and female members of society are hiding their breasts and genitals or having them completely removed.
An ancient example is of the Aztecs and Mayans. Children were grabbed by the neck to make them grow tall. The Padaung women of Myanmar would use coiled brass neck rings to stretch their necks 15 inches, pushing down the collarbones, while compressing their rib cages.
Self-flagellation, which is even practiced in Christianity and by some Muslims, is the practice of flogging oneself with whips and other instruments that produce pain. For Christians it is said to be allowed to share in the suffering of Jesus Christ as a way to be closer to God. It is not. It is a form of Sadomasochism.
During infancy, cranial modification was used to produce an elongated shaped head. Teeth were filed to make them sharp and holes bored into them and filled with precious stones. Think about this as you see people with “gold grills” and diamonds in their mouths.
Ear piercings that were stretched with ornaments used as a sign of maturation. Lip piercings for men that were systematically stretched as they took prisoners of war. Tongue bifurcation and other forms of body modification and mutilation.
Tattoos, scarification, and branding, which in some instances for Aztecs, were indicative of becoming one with the stars, burns on the wrists aligned with certain constellations. Trepanations used the drilling of holes into human skulls. And Lobotomies were used to treat “mental disorders”. Which used crude surgical techniques, inappropriate patient selection, absence of consent, dehumanization, with a lack of efficacy, having devastating side effects.
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