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......
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