Religion
Christianity has seen the three stages phased out and replaced with biblical teachings in a number of areas in Kipsigis areas (although the traditions of the "menjo" remains unchanged). Female circumcision used to be practised but is opposed by Christian beliefs, government legislation and international medical practitioners and welfare groups.
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“It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its corruption, given birth to polytheism and to all the various superstitions of the heathen world. Reason, when obvious, prevents these corruptions: When abstruse, it keeps the principles entirely from the knowledge of the vulgar, who are alone liable to corrupt any principle or opinion.
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—David Hume (1711–1776)
“All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)