How Religion Makes Us Better People
Google Image I’ve noticed that as I grow older, I’m less likely to have bouts of anger – something that in the past I’ve had more often than I care to admit or recall. Though I may not find myself angry as often, I’m more interested in the subject of anger. One moment of enlightenment about anger occurred years ago when I realized that anger almost always hurts me more than the person with whom I’m angry. In other words, when I’m angry, I’m miserable. So what makes people angry? It’s undoubtedly complex, but writing in “Living City,” a publication of the Focolare Movement ( https://www.focolare.org/en/ ), Jerry Hearne recalls reading about an incident of road rage in which one driver regretted his violent reaction and tried to analyze it. “If the driver were able to catch even one of the avalanche of thoughts that assailed him immediately before his anger struck,” writes Hearne, “it could hypothetically be, ‘People always disrespect me’ or ‘Nobody’s gonna mess with me….’” W...