Honor your father and your mother. As a rule of thumb, this sounds pretty reasonable. As the fifth in God's 10 Commandments, His 10 laws for man to live by, it still seems pretty reasonable. LifeHopeandTruth.com states, "God gave the 10 Commandments from Mount Sinai, accompanied by smoke, earthquakes and the blast of a trumpet to emphasize the importance of these laws. Moses recorded God’s words in Exodus 20 and recounted the event again in Deuteronomy 5."
Actually, Moses didn't write any of this. Scholars ascribe Exodus to the Babylonian exile period which occurred a good 500 years after Moses received the stone tablets from God. So much for truth but, you can't believe anything you read on the internet - right? Bon jour!
To read more of my post on honoring bad parents, please follow this link to my blog, “The Path”: Honor Thy Pedophile and Thy Mother?