@ShaneEBurns Just bought a MASSIVE new boat. Got at least a hundred of those little goofy fuckers working for me. They seem to be staying busy but it's so damn cheap to hire em that I really don't even care if they're sitting around with their thumbs up their asses all day #India#BoomerLife
Summa Theologiae II-II, Question 158, Article 8: "Anger may be understood in two ways. In one way, as a simple movement of the will, whereby one inflicts punishment, not through passion, but in virtue of a judgment of the reason: and thus without doubt lack of anger is a sin."
The second way he describes in the passionate sense which is the common modern understanding of anger. But it's important to realize that in his day, anger also describes someone who witnesses an injustice and remains entirely calm, resolves to remediate the injustice, and does so with measured rationality and proportion.
The notion that righteous anger requires the emotional impulse of his second definition risks encouraging people to deliberately increase the fleshly passion rather than the rational impulse towards justice.
Lacking the passionate anger but having the rational behavior towards justice is ideal. Having both, but keeping the passion controlled by reason, is normal and also ideal.
Having the passionate anger without reason will lead to excess, and is a sin. Lacking both, and allowing injustice to be unchallenged, is a sin.
@GregLucker@OurOwnNation@TonyMichaelX I've read it as being a fairly small remnant (possibly the 144,000 mentioned?) who repents by the skin of their teeth as the entire world is coming down on them like hellfire to annihilate them just before the end of the world.
Still need to give em the boot and cut ties w them
James Watson was reduced to selling his Nobel Prize medal after being hounded out of academia for suggesting that evolutionary pressure applied to humans as well.