Peters related an incident in his own life concerning \u201cconsuming rage\u201d.\u00a0 A neighborhood bully drove him over the edge.\u00a0 The child Peters struck back.\u00a0 This act was unacceptable to the moms in the neighborhood and he was forced to apologize, even though the bully had the injury coming to him.<\/p>\n
What was the child Peters defending himself against?\u00a0 His anxiety was the fear of the loss that this bully could impose.\u00a0 Peters was protecting his xiety<\/em>, the life that he could have had (if the bully never existed).<\/p>\n Peters told another story about a California boy who became an active homosexual then got outed by his own brother (and his brother\u2019s friend).\u00a0 He ended up confronting his brother\u2019s friend, begging to get his old life back (perhaps, the life that he could have had but was compromised by his own sexual activity; or perhaps, the life that he pretended to have as if he were not sexually active).\u00a0 His brother\u2019s friend rebuffed him.\u00a0 So he shot his brother\u2019s friend with an Uzi.<\/p>\n After these and other stories, Peters served the blandishments of tired inevitability, concluding that anxiety and rage, along with the violence they generate, are part of the human condition.\u00a0 He threw in the word \u201cOriginal Sin\u201d in order to spice up the dish.\u00a0 If only we had faith (in Christ), then we might have the common sense not to give in to \u201cconsuming rage\u201d.<\/p>\n With faith (in Christ), we could accept the unacceptable: the xiety<\/em> of living in the shadow of a bully and the xiety<\/em> of the label of \u201cfaggot\u201d and the look of humiliation in the eyes of one\u2019s father and mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peters related an incident in his own life concerning \u201cconsuming rage\u201d.\u00a0 A neighborhood bully drove him over the edge.\u00a0 The child Peters struck back.\u00a0 This act was unacceptable to the moms in the neighborhood and he was forced to apologize, even though the bully had the injury coming to him. What was the child Peters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n