JC> -> JC> drunk before he is cut.
JC> ->
JC> -> "Asleep" might be a better word!
JC> -> Even if the boy swallowed the whole amount of wine he was given, 
JC> do
JC> -> you think he would have reached a level of total insensitivity to
JC> -> pain so soon after?
JC> ->
JC> I am honestly not sure.  I would never give a child alochol of any 
JC> type,
JC> as it is not my cultural practice. 
    Then be as tolerant of my culture, which requires the wine as part of the 
circumcision ceremony.
    But still, the boy won't be stone-drunk that fast...the whole ceremony 
doesn't last long enough after the wine is put on the kid's lips.  
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