Blog post about anger & sin. The post begins...
You’ve probably laughed as I have at this wise-crack:
“When asking WWJD, always remember that getting mad and knocking over the tables is a valid answer.”
I like that quip, but it’s a dubious guide for human behavior.
It seems to me our society has an anger problem, and one that works in opposing directions.
On the one hand, we seem to be increasingly thin-skinned about matters of little import.
On the other, we are passive and “tolerant” of behavior that “cries out to heaven.”
Msgr. Charles Pope has a simple and useful post about anger that navigates between these two shoals.
Here are a couple of points I think he brings out nicely.
First, he shows that meekness is a misunderstood virtue.
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