Anger
“Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is probably the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations yet to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain your are given and the pain you are giving back – in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.”
This is from a book called Wishful Thinking-A Theological ABC. It’s a skinny little book with entries from Abraham to Zaccheus. I’d read it years ago and finally managed to track down a used copy a few years ago. This particular entry has always stuck with me.
The author's entry on bread reminds us that there is an emptiness that even the most elaborate feast won't satisfy. I think that the feast of anger that we're seeing around us is one of the results. Darned if I know what the answer is.
Blessed be
2 comments:
There has been a deliberate plan to make Americans angry and to arm them to the teeth. The plan has been carried out in bits and pieces by the KKK, the NRA, the Republican Party and others over the years. But you have to ask yourself, who stands to gain most from America destroying herself from within? The answer is pretty obvious: the same foreign entity that put Trump in the White House and intends to keep him there as long as possible. I hope to god they have underestimated the power of the American people to right our ship of state...
I guess you can take the man out of the KGB but you can't take the KGB out of the man. I don't believe Russia wants the US too weak. They need a counter balance to the Chinese. Just weak enough to give Russia that toe hold in the middle east she's been after for centuries.
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