{"id":455,"date":"2023-06-22T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/?page_id=455"},"modified":"2023-06-26T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T14:16:44","slug":"roman-emperor-hadrian-against-circumcision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/?page_id=455","title":{"rendered":"Roman Emperor Hadrian Against Circumcision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-479 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot_20230621-1404342-179x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot_20230621-1404342-179x300.png 179w, https:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot_20230621-1404342-611x1024.png 611w, https:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot_20230621-1404342-768x1288.png 768w, https:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot_20230621-1404342.png 821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/>&#8220;The Seleucid king Antiochus IV endeavored to abolish Jewish tyranny and to introduce Greek civilization&#8230; The Romans picked up where the Greeks left off in the campaign to rid the world of sexual disfigurements of all degree.\u00a0 Upholding a standard of benificence all their own, the Romans united the Greeks&#8217; high regard of the intact body with a greater gift of administration.\u00a0 Around 132 A.D. Hadrian issued a universal decree outlawing circumcision, under death penalty.\u00a0 The fact that circumcision was punished with the maximum penalty allowed under law, attests to the strength of Greek and Roman views on the subject.\u00a0 Taking into account the compassionate spirit of the almost identically framed laws banning castration, the ban on circumcision was most certainly motivated by humanitarian and ethical charitable considerations.&#8221; The Ideal Prepuce In Ancient Greece And Rome CIRP.org.<!--more--><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Seleucid king Antiochus IV endeavored to abolish Jewish tyranny and to introduce Greek civilization&#8230; The Romans picked up where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-455","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/455\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christian-defenders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}