[These two Questions & Answers have come about as a result of my “Epidemic of Unrighteous Anger” article from six days ago. I think these questions highlight some peripheral issues which are worth dealing with. I hope you find them helpful]

QUESTION #1: “The reason that you are seeing so much anger in the world is because you have that anger in yourself, and you are attracting it to yourself from those around you. Like attracts like. If you smile at everyone and speak sweetly to them, as I do, they will smile and speak sweetly to you, just as they do to me”.

ANSWER:  Thank you for this question, for which I am very grateful as it needs responding to on so many levels. Frankly, I am rather flabbergasted that you would express yourself in this way. Especially as you claim to be a Christian. The notion that “like attracts like” is (from the modern standpoint) a New Thought/New Age concept based on what they call “the Law of Attraction”, as demonstrated in such books as “The Secret”. I have already debunked this concept in many articles and books, yet it is still held by many professing Christians. As a concept, it was catalogued a hundred and thirty years ago in James Frazer’s work on magic in religion, entitled “The Golden Bough” (1890), where he correctly stated that one of the two fundamental principles of thought on which all magic is based is “like produces like”. This, of course, is no different essentially to what was taught by such gross occultists as Aleister Crowley, who said, “Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in accordance with Will” (as he stated in his book, “Magick in Theory and Practice”, 1929). It makes the person into the likeness of a god by making everything outside that person revolve around him or her. So if you say that others show anger because of my alleged secret anger, then that makes me the causal factor of what is effectively other people’s sin.

The idea that other people get angry because the one who observes them is secretly angry inwardly is the most nonsensical statement imaginable and is plainly a way of blaming the observer while exonerating the one who is angry. For the implication is that the angry person only got angry because of the observer’s secret anger having an effect on them, which is essentially saying that the one observing the angry person is the one who is really to blame! People will think of anything which excuses their own sin and which negates the need for them to take responsibility for it. Furthermore, if I am in a car and I see someone in the road indulging in road-rage towards another driver, or observe someone in a shop line berating the cashier, how on earth could my alleged secret anger be causing those angry people to vent their spleen?!? The whole idea is ludicrous and is the ultimate “red herring”.

I would go so far as to say that if you claim to be a Christian and no one ever shows any anger towards you, then you are most likely not proclaiming the truth in a diligent and faithful manner. I would go even further than that and say that to rile the people of the world one does not even need to be proclaiming the truth, for you will discover that sometimes you only have to walk into a room and people can sense your spirit, and they do not like it. The demons controlling them will make you seem repellent to them. Some readers will know exactly what I mean by this.

You say that all I have to do is smile at everyone and speak sweetly to them, then they will never be angry and only smile at me and speak sweetly to me, and then the world will be ‘hunky-dory’. Obviously, if you wear the same mask as the people of the world wear, then you will get that same mask back from them. There will have been no threat to them and just a wallowing in superficiality between two people wearing similar masks. By all means have a chat about the weather or some such other trifle, but if you dare to mention the truth about something radical to them (such as the reality behind the recent pandemic, or the fact that voting in elections is a scam to give the appearance of democracy), or if you share with them the nuts and bolts of the Gospel, I can assure you that in most cases they will not smile at you and speak sweetly to you at all but instead will give you a mouthful.

The real reason that unrighteous human anger is on the increase today is because of the process of apostasy, in which there is an increasing falling away from being in sync with God’s law, resulting in patience growing thin and the love of most growing cold, while irrationality and an increasing dumbed-downness stifle even the ability for the mass of human minds to grasp your logic and truthful proclamation.

Please familiarise yourself with the Bible’s writings on such issues rather than imbibing “Christianized” magical practices.

QUESTION #2: “If you reject the company of those who ‘vomit their unrighteous anger’ on you, how can you preach the gospel to them? Didn’t Jesus say that we are to love our enemies and those who treat us spitefully?”

ANSWER:  Firstly, I never mentioned failing to love them. I am simply referring to the importance of keeping ourselves apart from any kind of intimate or bonding relationship with those who “vomit” their anger all over us so easily. To subject oneself to such onslaughts of bullying treatment is both debilitating and wears down the soul with its extreme negativity and nastiness. Eschewing their debilitating company does not mean failing to love them. Hopefully, they will already have heard the Gospel from you, in which case your duty has been done. Really, it is also your duty to separate yourself from being treated like that because to remain under its abusiveness would be to encourage the other in their anger. That is not the right way to deal with bullies.

However, this is not merely about someone being “your enemy”. When one is a disciple of Christ, one doesn’t treat others as an enemy and should have no enemies as such. But many will still make an enemy of you and treat you as their enemy. Obviously you cannot separate yourself from all obnoxious unbelievers or you would have to go out of the world! (First Letter to the Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 10). But you can still take care not to remain in their presence unnecessarily when they are exploding with unrighteous anger. However, we are given clear instructions how to respond to those who claim to be Christians yet who indulge in verbal assaults on us. As Paul puts it:

“I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be ‘a brother’ but is sexually immoral or covetous [i.e. avaricious, grasping, always wanting more of everything], an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a person do not even eat”.  

First Letter to the Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 11

The Greek word translated there as “verbal abuser” refers to someone who rails at others or who reviles them in a nasty, slanderous manner. Angry outbursts would come under this category. Thus, if such a person is coming at you with such behaviour, you have every right to cut all communication with them. Do not even eat with them! Believe it or not, that is an act of love for you are treating them in this manner not out of anger or malice but in the sincere hope that they will change and see the error of their ways.

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