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A positivism of disobedience
As everybody knows The Parable of the Prodigal Son teaches us repentance and forgiveness through the story of two different characters: the young, disobedient, and the old, obedient, brothers. From the early childhood most parents teach their children to be obedient and underline that obedience is goodness, and disobedience is a fault. However, the parable actually defense disobedience and importance of disobedience. And world history proves that disobedience is more progressive issue than regressive.
On one hand, at the beginning the young son appeared as a negative hero. He was a self-driven son, who left his parent's house. He took his inheritance from his father and totally wasted it. To avoid starving, he got a job caring for pigs. He was in progressive degradation in far land. As being along, poor herdsman, who ate "husks that the swine did eat", he often recalled his religious father and his kingdom, where each hired servant" have bread enough and to spare" (Luke, 66). He thinks to come back to father's kingdom and to live among religious humans. And one day he did that. When the father met him and the son says that he "sinned against heaven, and Â…no more worthy to be called thy son," the father did not even listen to his carefully prepared speech and the part about his becoming a hired hand (Luke, 66). He immediately called for the best robe. There is not the slightest questioning of his son sincerity. The young son grew from foolish youth to gay, who was able to think and to analyze his acts. Then the father called for the fatted calf, and the music and songs begin. The party symbolized his full restoration to honor in the family. He was in sinful living and came back to religion. It manifests that sinful living is totally wrong way of life and how to fix it. The young disobedient brother restored his life as a believer. This is how disobedient son is. To me at the end of the...
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