Reply #60: Yes. The anger is there, it is real, and it is insane to bury it, deny it [View All]

toss it aside, or eat it. We have the same kind of anger that sent Union soldiers into battle at Gettysburg. It is righteous anger. It is right as rain to be angry when your neighbor holds another man in slavery and will not set him free. It is right to be angry when the President lies to the nation and launches an unjust war. People who have no anger for what the Bush Family Evil Empire has unleashed on this nation, are out of touch with their emotions; they are dead really.

There is a great book titled the Four Fold Way, I forget the author's name, that talks about The Warrior, The Visionary, The Healer, and The Teacher.

The visionary is one who "speaks the truth without blame or judgement". So, for example, a parent can be angry with a child doing drugs, and demand that they stop, saying, "you are hurting yourself, and you are hurting me".

But here is what the "Visionary" cannot do (they cannot go into blame and judgement)-- they cannot go on and say, "the reason you are doing drugs is that, "you are evil, and because you are evil, you need to be punished, and because I am you judge, jury, and executioner, I will apply the punishment".

Rightous anger has a place in truth telling, but it has no place in blame, judgement and punishment, for that is where anger itself becomes evil.