Welcome to betrayal trauma recovery. This is Anne. So many of you know that I'm a

member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and we study from

both the Bible and the Book of Mormon.

And there are a bunch of war chapters in the Book of Mormon.

And I'm going to read some concepts from this today

that have really helps me understand righteous anger and what that looks like.

So as you know the Bible is the account of Jesus in Jerusalem and his dealings there.

The Book of Mormon is an ancient account from about 600

BC to 400 a.d. of the people in ancient Central America. They also

prophesied of Christ.

So if you're not Christian, I hope that you can glean some benefit from these scriptures.

The point of this is not to proselytize it by any means. I respect all of your different views.

It is to talk about a concept of anger within least Christianity or within the general context of society of what righteous anger looks like or what

healthy anger looks like. These scriptures I'm going to be reading to you are from Alma, which is a book in the Book of Mormon, and

Alma is a prophet. And during this time you have a very righteous captain of an army

and his name is Maroni and he is saying to the

unrighteous people hey you either repent and stop being unrighteous and stop

harming us or I'm going to kill you. Those are the two options

that Maroni gives. And this is really interesting because people who are members of the Church

of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will recognize that Morona is one of the most righteous men in the scriptures.

It even states that in Alma 4817, it says, and verily, verily, I say into you, if all men had been and were and ever would be,

like Maroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever,

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