A person that holds himself to principles of love, forgiveness, and tolerance cannot claim to hold the flame of righteousness in the face of war whilst celebrating the death of every soldier sent home. Who celebrates the death of a patriot? A man cannot vehemently oppose a different (but not challenging) ideal and claim righteous fury. What exactly is immorally infuriating about something merely being different? That’s like the color pink being angry at the color blue because it’s blue and has different fundamentals. Pink is a tint, blue is a primary – so what? Still colors, and perfectly fine on their own. (And blue, I can tell, is perfectly self-assured)
Discrimination is most definitely not righteous fury. Righteous fury is when you tell your daughter not to whore herself off, and then she does it anyway. Or, not even that extreme: you see your son of legal age smoking a cigarette in the backyard. Or maybe it’s your dog who is STILL crapping around the house.
You’re angry on behalf of what’s proper, but really, that just stems from being upset over this disregard for rules you’ve set, or the other person’s own well being. Take it beyond being angry over the instance and you’re just being petty. I suppose you could get righteously angry over a man who made a deal with a demon. He sold his soul for whatever thing he held in such high regard his soul was a worthy price. And you can be angry over the fact he made the deal, but to hate the man – that is not righteousness. What do you know of what he paid for? Does it not matter? Was his sacrifice completely meaningless?
Perhaps it is to you, but you don’t know what he paid for. Do you hate the man who sold his house away so he could pay for his son’s chemo-therapy? Or do you hate the man who sold his house so he could get more heroin? Or perhaps you hate both for selling away a set home without replacement; you are a fool.
They say that hate stems from rage, but what have you to rage for? Being opposed? That’s petty. Not fitting in with your paradigm? That’s just pig headed. Your rage is blind, and so is your hate.
you earn my pity – little more, and probably less. I await Armageddon, then we’ll all see. Besides, I’ve seen real righteous anger – it stems from disappointment.
