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OftenBen  ·  2887 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Long, Slow Death of Religion

    Is it ethical to put a child through a faith-based education, and to possibly subject them to non-consensual physical alteration (i.e. circumcision or FGM) as part of the faith?

I can't find an argument that supports this except for a biblical one. Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go,

And when he is old he will not depart from it."

And all that's really saying is "Get 'em young so that they aren't capable of questioning it when we tell them to believe hogwash."