This is sort of a long question but I hope you can answer it in it's entirety:
One of the commandments is to "Honor your mother and father"...But what if your parents are secular?
Is it a sin to feel anger and hatred towards a parent under any circumstances?
I love my parents a lot now, but
I was raised completely secular, celebrating Christmas
I have said some pretty nasty things to my parents, and the other day, my dad was talking about one of the socialist-type academic conferences he attended in Germany and I blurted out that I thought he was a fool for travelling to this country. (He's always attending these sort of Euro-socialist academic conferences to speak about family and health-care systems etc...)
I said I would never travel to Germany, let alone hobnob with their academics.
Then he countered with the relativist "What about the American Indians argument" and "So you want to blame them for what their parents did..." He is very sociable and has lots of European friends. My dad is popular, charismatic and has a lot of friends and his students all love him. I'd say he is also clever at dealing with academic politics.
I absolutely hated my parents when they were married...it was a living nightmare.
I actually love my parents now, even though they are misguided, and I think they misguided me...Now that they are divorced, I get along with each of them great and I can deal with them individually fine. I am so much happier now that my parents are divorced.
But how can you "Honor" someone who is secular? I mean, if we are supposed to listen to our parents, but they have no belief and cause you confusion, what then?