Well, does holy anger kill our delight in God?

It's a good question from Matt, a listener in Wisconsin, Pastor John Hello, and thank you

for this podcast.

I think we're living in an age where Christians are taking hard stances on just about

anything and everything, making decisions about vaccines and politicians and masks, decisions

all held with un-flexing biblical conviction.

And then those staunch positions and the resulting strong language is justified by Christians

in terms of righteous anger, like Jesus flipping tables and not sinning.

A long time back in an episode on abortion, ABJ 672, you made a case for using a righteous

anger to call out the evil of killing the unborn.

It witnesses to the world the degree of such an injustice as abortion.

But later you were asked about the distinction between un-holy anger and holy anger.

That was an APJ 1100.

And there you said, quote, I was much more optimistic about a righteous place for anger

when I was 30 than I am now.

I have seen the destructive power of anger and relationships, especially marriage.

To such a degree that over the last 40 to 50 years, I am far less sanguine about so-called

righteous anger that I once was.

Anger is not just a relationship destroyer, it is a self-destroyer.

It eats up all other wholesome emotions.

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I'm wondering if that last phrase is connected to your overwhelming emphasis in your

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