An Act of Anger

Leaving behind a rant against the government, big business and particularly the tax system a computer engineer smashed a small aircraft into an office building of the Internal Revenue Service.

The greatest spiritual act is to give up one’s life for the cause, but seeing life is dualistic, the ultimate good has an equally ultimate bad–like deliberately killing out of anger then trying to escape in the smoke by taking one’s own life.

It is written in the Psalms 3000 years ago, Where ever you flee God is before you; if you go into heaven or into the grave God is there. The Midrash–Book of Metaphor says that anger is comparable to serving idols since to serve an idol one must deny God, similarly uncontrolled anger refutes God’s world of free choice. Letting anger burn is detrimental to the populous.

People who give their lives to fight against injustice are to be lauded, but premeditated murder with blatant disregard for who dies is the sickness of our times. This indiscriminate hatred needs to be eradicated through the use of indiscriminate love.

The Torah is based upon the phrase Love one’s neighbor like one’s self. This simple injunction is the basis of God’s Law whose reward is peace. The last blessing of the 18 prayers recited daily is a prayer for peace–because without peace there is nothing.