Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Anger and God
The god of the ancient Hebrew
texts is certainly sometimes described as an Angry Old Man--and he
certainly slaughtered a lot of Canaanites for that hated worldview,
polytheism. But I'm not sure the god Jesus agreed with him on that
one--it's hard to reconcile with the "turn-the-other-cheek", love thy
enemy message. The Koran certainly follows that Hebrew tradition,
advocating that the "hatred of injustice" is a virtue, and Mohammad was
indeed a model warrior. I have never seen a story of the Buddha, simply
an enlightened man, however, getting angry. I may be wrong, just
haven't encountered it--even the Zen-influenced samurai does not kill
out of anger or hatred.
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