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Hi, I am unclear as to how the distinction lies regarding sinful vs righteous anger.
On one hand, I have heard that it is righteous to be angry in some cases. The example I can think of is the anger that Simeon and Levi had when their sister was raped by the Sichemites (I am reading the DRV, and this is what the footnotes state). However, sinful anger would be resenting somebody because they acquired something you don’t have, for example.
I am unclear in my case which this is. In my country, we have had riots where people are protesting (like the Americans) against a comparatively minor issue. Police brutality is almost non existent here, and the only people who have been killed by police are terrorists and criminals pointing weapons at police. However, in spite of this, they have desecrated the national war memorial and are trying to commit mass iconoclasm by pressuring local governments to destroy statues of 400-year-old men, who while guilty of racism, have statues for the reason of their philanthropy.
Now, my great-grandfather is commemorated by this war memorial, as he died selflessly for this country, and these people are very clearly motivated by the destruction of the country he sought to protect. This is not an issue of racism in the same way as it is in the US. I am not angry at particular people either, I am getting angry at the tremendous lack of respect these people show to a country that has raised them and shed its blood in long wars against injustice.
Is this sinful?
On one hand, I have heard that it is righteous to be angry in some cases. The example I can think of is the anger that Simeon and Levi had when their sister was raped by the Sichemites (I am reading the DRV, and this is what the footnotes state). However, sinful anger would be resenting somebody because they acquired something you don’t have, for example.
I am unclear in my case which this is. In my country, we have had riots where people are protesting (like the Americans) against a comparatively minor issue. Police brutality is almost non existent here, and the only people who have been killed by police are terrorists and criminals pointing weapons at police. However, in spite of this, they have desecrated the national war memorial and are trying to commit mass iconoclasm by pressuring local governments to destroy statues of 400-year-old men, who while guilty of racism, have statues for the reason of their philanthropy.
Now, my great-grandfather is commemorated by this war memorial, as he died selflessly for this country, and these people are very clearly motivated by the destruction of the country he sought to protect. This is not an issue of racism in the same way as it is in the US. I am not angry at particular people either, I am getting angry at the tremendous lack of respect these people show to a country that has raised them and shed its blood in long wars against injustice.
Is this sinful?
