<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4ec538e2-c601-4405-a2b5-6d226c4faec7/E1C552BD-933E-4955-A967-BB2C13FE3F1C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.stumblerz.com/5-religious-rituals-that-literally-hurt-like-hell/" href="http://www.stumblerz.com/5-religious-rituals-that-literally-hurt-like-hell/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.stumblerz.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stumblerz.com/5-religious-rituals-that-literally-hurt-like-hell/"><H2>5 Religious Rituals that Literally Hurt Like Hell</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stumblerz.com/5-religious-rituals-that-literally-hurt-like-hell/">While some of us may think that sitting through a religious service every week is painful, there are numerous religious rituals practiced throughout the world that truly inflict severe physical pain on their participants.  One of the most common and well known painful religious practices is male circumcision.  Circumcision is common in both Judaism and Islam.  The foreskin of the penis is removed during the circumcision procedure.  Studies have shown strong evidence that even in newborns who undergo this procedure, there is quite a bit of pain involved.  Female circumcision is another practice that is common in Africa for people of different faiths and is a source of great controversy.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E1C552BD-933E-4955-A967-BB2C13FE3F1C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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