If it were a Madoff admitting that his father was a con artist, or an abused daughter of a drunken father, you’d be right. But what to do if your father’s a mass murderer and you don’t like that fact? Only Omar bin Laden and the youngest son of Adolf Eichmann have that distinction that I know of. And the people are still dead, notwithstanding the disavowals. It’s not like they’re going to get into the saddle and become mass murderers themselves. So what does their disavowals amount to? Are they going to devote their lives to repairing some of the harm that their fathers did? That might be excessive. But other than saying, “I will not kill millions/thousands like my father did. Mass murder is bad,” they really haven’t done anything. Yet, at least.
Neither one carried their fathers guilt. Why should Eichman’s son dedicate his life to the impossible task of repairing the acts of his father?
Have YOU spent your life running around owning and fixing your OWN father’s screw ups?
That’s un-American and un-Christian to blame a son for what his father did, especially since both are obviously repelled by what their fathers did.
And you’re overthinking it. It’s enough that this guy says his father was evil, and wants to be an artist, and reach out to people his father would have hated.
That’s enough.
His family is very wealthy. He could easily stay quiet and never want for a thing in life.
The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.