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The lineage may be paternal (for most Hindus, Manipuris are matriarchal), but women rule us. Grandmas, mothers, wives, then daughters. The force is with them for many Hindus. Can I disobey my wife when she bans non-veg. during festivals, does not want me to consume liquor, gives me two cigarettes a day to manage? No, not even in my dreams.
It is not. I have quoted Nasadiya sukta of the RigVeda which says Gods are later than the creation of the universe (perhaps earlier than 1,000 BCE). Then, Buddha, Charvaks, Ajivakas, the Upanishads, Samkhya's 'Nirishwaravada', Vaisheshika's insistence on atoms, Advaita of Gaudapada in 7th Century and that of Sankara in the 8th. Read about Hindu Atheism at Hindu atheism - Wikipedia.
More than any one 'religion' I find people today are more apt to choose their own beliefs on individual issues which is more like a 'cafeteria style' religion where they choose the items that work for them.
Christianity has a spectrum from conservative to liberal in my experience. How would you describe the version you follow?
Christianity has a spectrum from quite acceptable to bat **** crazy.
One day I met an older man who simply said to me, " I have good news for you." Then he read me Ecclesiastes 1:4 B that Earth abides forever.
However, I find that sinner Satan is the ' god ' of this world of badness - 2 Corinthians 4:4My God of course.
Now I assumed there was only one God, the same God for all, but obviously I can't guarantee that.
I was 37 when my son Michael was born. In contrast my wife is a loving person. We had tried for years to have a child, before Michael there was a miscarriage, and my wife grieved over that child partly because she was so excited to have that first child, partly because I was the father of that child. Before we got married my father told my wife and me not to have a baby because in my family there was something mysterious going on with my brothers. Something was wrong and they were sent all the way to NIH in Washington to find out what was wrong. My younger brother had trouble walking, I remember and was angry at my parents constantly, and also timid about life. He couldn't relate to women, he never married, never held a decent job in his life, and mercifully died in 2010. My older brother when he went to graduate school suddenly broke down completely. He was very slow in everything, he drove me crazy! As life went on he became paranoid, had little in the way of jobs, and never married like my other brother. He couldn't relate to women, and yearned until the end to have a wife. He mercifully died in 2017.
When we travelled to Florida to see my wife's family we stopped on the way in Georgia to visit friends, and they had a young toddler who was speaking though he was 6 months younger while Michael at age two wasn't talking. I was alarmed! There were warning signs before this but I had ignored them. One thing I noticed about Michael was that he would run back and forth outside, apparently looking at his reflection in the windows. Up until even age 16 when he left us he would eat very limited foods. Any other foods was poison to him. This reminds me of your son son starving over unacceptable food. He only would drink water. Anything else he would make a face, then refuse to drink anymore. He twirled plastic lids on the floor. I should have connected that to the TV show where this young boy twirled plates. He didn't advance in how he played with his toys. He said a few words when he was 6 - 9 months, then he stopped. He engaged with us in a lively way, then it was as if he didn't have that life any more. It was less obvious then, but we have pictures of him that show that. It snuck up on us gradually. I have heard that autism sets in at about 1 year old.
