Not quite. You're using one of the classic 5 major falsehoods, in which Jews work to conceal their nature and protect their status and power, to wit: (1) The Jews are Israelites, and thus God's chosen people; (2) Jesus Christ was a Jew; (3) That 6 million Jews were killed in a holocaust during WW II; (4) That all people are equal; and, (5) That the Jews are just another religious group. Christianity has NEVER been based on Judaism. In fact Judaism is a newer religion than Christianity is. Judaism was created to confront the spread of Christianity and also to conceal Judaism's ritualistic practice of blood-letting. In 66 CE, when the Roman general Vespasian swept into Jerusalem, Judaism was a cultic, oral religion, with Herod's massive temple as its lodestar. Everything happened in the temple complex. Four years later, Vespasian's son Titus razed it to the ground. A quote from the Talmud: *"Where was God under the rubble?"* wondered the Rabbis. *"How to praise him now that the temple was gone?"* The sages agreed: Jews would have to **BECOME** a people of the book, or they would disappear. Hence, they were **NOT** a people of the book before this time. Circumcision did not exist in Christianity for 2000 years. It is still not the prevailing practice in Christianity. The apostle Paul explicitly denounced the practice, rejecting and condemning those who promoted circumcision to Christians. Paul warned that the advocates of circumcision were "false brothers". In addition, Greek and Roman culture found circumcision to be detestable and inhumane. In the Roman Empire, circumcision was regarded as a barbaric and a repugnant custom. The consul Titus Flavius Clemens was condemned to death by the Roman Senate in 95 CE for, according to the Talmud, circumcising himself and converting to Judaism. The Emperor Hadrian (117–138) forbade circumcision. From this, it is quite clear that circumcision is NOT a Western or Christian practice. The origins of circumcision is not clear. It certainly precedes Abraham. In fact, eastern tribes of the Mesopotamia did not practice circumcision. These tribes included the Canaanites. Western tribes like the Edomites did however practice it. During this period, circumcision was, among other reasons, a mark to separate people from other tribes. There was also a religious aspect to this that appears to represent a blood sacrificial offering. We certainly can see this today with Jewish ritual circumcision, the *Messisa* or *Metzitzah*, in which a *mohel* (ritual circumciser) sucks blood from the penis of the circumcised infant with his mouth. This is NOT Christianity, nor has it ever been. Circumcision has NEVER been a practice in Christianity. >>"I'm not worried about literal translations in Greek and Latin and shit..." Your statement sums up your slacker attitude for seeking the truth. As a result, one tends to fall for the Judaizing myths and precepts of the eternal enemy.