I considered this because my faith also believes it. Regardless, I believe the principle stands on it's own.
Meanwhile, I'm pondering the apparent conflict. To that end, these are some of the points I'm considering.
1) Children aren't generally able to fully embrace faith on it's own merits until they are young adults. Until then, their faith is mostly proxied thru their parents.
2) Children have no practical ability to repay debts.
3) Faiths that teach pure service as a calling tend to extend it to parenthood.
4) The principle I'm advocating is a principle to family and to society.
More 4) In my experience, when a personal or societal principle appear to conflict w/ a religious principle, it's often due to an incomplete understanding of the principles in play. I found it is spiritually & ethically safe to allow those principles to co-exist in disharmony until greater knowledge reframes the conflict in a more solvable way.
More 4 tl;dr ver) There is great risk in pushing immature conclusions - much less risk in holding inconsistent ones.
Meanwhile, I'm pondering the apparent conflict. To that end, these are some of the points I'm considering.
1) Children aren't generally able to fully embrace faith on it's own merits until they are young adults. Until then, their faith is mostly proxied thru their parents.
2) Children have no practical ability to repay debts.
3) Faiths that teach pure service as a calling tend to extend it to parenthood.
4) The principle I'm advocating is a principle to family and to society.
More 4) In my experience, when a personal or societal principle appear to conflict w/ a religious principle, it's often due to an incomplete understanding of the principles in play. I found it is spiritually & ethically safe to allow those principles to co-exist in disharmony until greater knowledge reframes the conflict in a more solvable way.
More 4 tl;dr ver) There is great risk in pushing immature conclusions - much less risk in holding inconsistent ones.