[quote=@Legend] For the sake of simplicity, we'll assume Christian morals being the "moral" side of things, because it allows us to weigh an objective standard. Deuteronomy 5:16 “Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you." Leviticus 19:3 "Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God." Or if you don't like OT Ephesians 6:1-2 "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise)," No qualifications are ever put on honoring (respecting) one's parents. Obeying, on the other hand, has qualifications (see above), because they must obey God first, and then parents. But at no point does it say to respect/honor them if they have earned it. It's an all-encompassing command that does not fade. The humanistic view, on the other hand, claims relative morals, which might as well be no morals at all because it means nothing; without a static structure to create morality around, it will shift eventually anyway, so there's no room to call something absolutely morally right. [/quote] Except the christian set of morals is contradictory and has changed over time, and adding a god into the mix doesn't make morals mean something when they wouldn't otherwise... ANYWAY Throwing out the OT because literally five christians follow it anyway, let's look at that quote you gave. "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise)," Since we have the ability to interpret passages with some flexibility since that's, you know, how religion works, and there's the whole "the words used often don't convey the same meaning as the words they were translated into over time, or even simply from Aramaic," this passage could easily have been intended to mean: - Children, obey your parents when they instruct you in how to follow the (in the) Lord, for this is right. “(Honor)Trust your father and mother” - Using bible verses is basically like using google translate to turn a japanese song into english.