© AFP/GETTYRussell Crowe - talking sense on circumcision
The Oscar-winning actor laballed the practice "barbaric and stupid" during a row with his Twitter followers, telling them to "f--- off" if they disagreed with him.
The 47-year-old engaged in an angry exchange with one follower, whom he branded a "moron", before imploring Jewish people to "stop cutting your babies".
The debate followed a question by one of his fans called @picknic11 who asked him: "My son is due soon. Do you think I should get him circumstanced? [sic]"
Crowe tweeted: "Circumcision is barbaric and stupid. Who are you to correct nature? Is it real that GOD requires a donation of foreskin? Babies are perfect."
He added: "Many Jewish friends, I love my Jewish friends, I love the apples and the honey and the funny little hats but stop cutting yr babies.
"I will always stand for the perfection of babies, I will always believe in God, not man's interpretation of what God requires.
"Last of it, if u feel it is yr right 2 cut things off yr babies please unfollow and f--- off, I'll take attentive parenting over barbarism."
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Crowe replied: "My friend, "human" science has caused too much damage, don't be a moron."
Another follower told him: "I disagree on Circumcision , It's more hygienic and nobody remembers it", to which Crowe replied "Hygienic? Why don't you sew up your ass then?" The follower then seemingly offered to fight Crowe if he was ever in Newfoundland.
Crowe also apparently likened circumcision to human sacrifice, when another follower asked: "You are comparing sexual mutilation w/ a jewish ceremonial act?!"
He replied: "Can you actually read the words you just typed " a ceremonial act" , F--- that. The Mayans had ceremonial acts too."
He could have said it without the f-bombs, but the fact that he's saying it is commendable.
I have to wonder, though, how such statements could affect his career in that Jewish-controlled industry he works in. Maybe we'll witness how fast a mega-star can find himself off the A list, maybe even in the unemployment line.
Although the response he gave to the fan asking about being "circumstanced" was a good one, what in the hell possesses people to ask celebrities about such things. Why celebrities? Should we be asking Jack Nicholson's advice on vasectomies, or Madonna's advice about abortions? I mean, what we know of them is usually just a public persona. Why not try to get advice from someone you at least know?