All adults make decisions for their children and people who make religious decisions have a right to do this, just like circumcision, fasting at Lent, fasting for Ramadan, eating no meat, putting rings through noses, stretching their necks, putting plates in their lips, denying medical care, refusing transfusions...etc
think of children as precious. And so do I. But not long ago in our own culture it was thought better to let a child die young than have sinned. For eternal life meant more than present life.
We think of children as precious. And so do I. But not everyone does. Not long ago in our own culture it was thought better to let a child die young than have sinned. For eternal life meant more than present life.
Hinduism has 100s of different schools of thought, only some of them are vegetarian. We also do not know if all these kinds are Hindu as well or even subscribe to the same form of Hinduism.
The decision is easy for him. It’s not his children who are staring.
It’s not the tribals’ culture.