--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 8/1/06 12:50:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > *If* he really wants to be a decent person and live > up to his Christian ideals, his father's anti- > Semitism must be a horrible conflict for him. He > seems not to be able to cross his father; maybe > he's afraid his father won't love him any more if > he does. Not a good place to be in. > > He may believe in the biblical teaching that one doesn't betray or > disrespect ones authority figures, no matter how wrong the may be > because God gave them authority over you.
On the other hand, he has said that his father has "never lied to him." It's a good point, though, that he may actually have a religious conflict, but I'd suggest that's in addition to an emotional conflict about publicly disagreeing with his father. As a public figure himself who made a controversial movie about Jesus Christ, he can't just keep entirely silent. He's going to be asked about it over and over, and whatever he says is going to be given wide publicity. So he really is between a rock and a hard place. He can't publicly *agree OR disagree* with his father. No wonder he drinks... The Story of Noah being drunk and naked is relevant > here. Hamm came in the cave and found Noah drunk and naked and went out blabbing > it to everyone where as the two other brothers found their father in that > condition and covered him up and said nothing to anyone about it. Noah was > their authority figure and while what he did was wrong and despicable he wasn't > punished by God where as Hamm was for his disrespect of his father, and the > other brothers were blessed for taking care of their father and remaining quiet. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
