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To: OneWingedShark

The one that defines how you are required to honor an abusive parent.


14 posted on 02/17/2013 8:07:43 PM PST by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions by the ATF***)
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To: GunRunner
The one that defines how you are required to honor an abusive parent.

Honor
  1. honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
  2. a source of credit or distinction: to be an honor to one's family.
  3. high respect, as for worth, merit, or rank: to be held in honor.
  4. such respect manifested: a memorial in honor of the dead.
  5. high public esteem; fame; glory: He has earned his position of honor.
Again, I reiterate: you misunderstand what it is to 'honor', I direct your attention to the definition above, particularly the bold & underlined definition. That definition is the the most applicable, though the others are too. Applying it to the commandment is to be a source of credit to your parents, the sort of person that makes people say that they did a good job raising you. (That they did or did not is no matter, the point is your character; to put it in militaristic terms, serving under a cruel and despotic commander would not alleviate me of the accountability of acting with dignity and respect to him or to others.) Nothing about 'honor' is to encourage a soft yielding-capitulation to evil.

As the bold-only shows, there is a respect element. "Respect" is not a self-effacement, but to hold in some manner of esteem. To go back to the military example: even if the commander is a lying cheat there is no excuse for me to discount his authority "because he's a bad guy." To react that way would be to undermine my own dignity.

20 posted on 02/17/2013 8:44:45 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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