Christians are trained to leap to personal "readings" to deal with points they don't like. So you deal with me by reading me as the sad boy with a bad daddy.

But in fact I'm giving you information. Fathers throughout the ages aren't warm and cuddly.

I wrote this post while watching the HBO show "Succession" and it seems to me the father there is a good example of the 'Father' in the Bible: concerned with the family's future but emotionally distant.