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sin; actually it is more like a shame, or a sad fact. Around the 1990s, it became all the rage to start screaming in heavy metal music. Nothing wrong there: I was one of the progenitors of that whole movement, and I screamed my dark little heart out every night. But then, something truly fucked happened. People started mistaking screaming for genuine emotion, rage became synonymous with all feelings, like all you had to do to appear passionate was scream in a metal band. “Oh he is so emotional. . .” Judas fucking Priest, are you kidding me? Jazz singers get on stage and bear their souls every night, and nobody gives a shit. Fuckbucket, the lead singer for the band Land Fill (with a logo that is completely illegible, illogical, and hackneyed, just like the music) barks the vocal equivalent of vomit into an SM57 with healthy doses of “fuck” and “dad” and people call him the next Jim Morrison.

    It is not the emotion you are experiencing but the experience you are engaging. You cannot be defined by the feeling if no one knows what you are feeling, so it is the reaction that is the quote-unquote “sin.” Why is the Church so scared of people feeling anything? I have a theory. I think it is because organized religion makes such an effort to control what people do that it makes sense to control how people feel, rage in particular because it is a natural reaction to anyone or anything controlling their lives. So how do you get people to stop getting mad when you tell them what to do and how to think? Tell them it’s a sin. That is what’s called a self-realizing philosophy. It is also virtually impenetrable the further you get away from the actual inception. In Martin Luther’s day, you might have been able to reverse something so manipulative. Today, with hundreds of years of dogma and successful brainwashing under their belt, you can pound your fist against the walls of blind acceptance all you want. All you will end up with are bloody knuckles and modern frustration.
    Yeah, if you could not tell, I have a big problem with religions. Organized religion has been the blueprint for more missteps than anything I have ever seen in my life. The thing I realized early on is that for an organization that preaches the benefits of love and calls anger a sin, they certainly breed a very opinionated and angry group of people, don’t they? As I have said, hypocrisy is one of the biggest sins in the world. The effect of hypocrisy is that people are told to be one way, while the righteous can do what they please.
    These people can sincerely go fuck themselves.
    Much like lust, the only other “sin” that can be misconstrued as an emotion, there’s a stigma attached to rage that has been
dog piled by years of misrepresentation and fear. When a person gets mad, people are conditioned to think that person is immediately going to do something terrible. Some of this can be attributed to what they call “the caveman gene,” but a lot of it comes down to propaganda. If I get angry, a majority of the people will automatically think I am going to kill someone or beat my kids or rape a horse or something else equally insipid. What is the bigger sin: the anger or the mudslinging about the anger?
    Anger is a sin when parents beat their kids. The real sinner is the murderer who mangles a victim so badly she is left unrecognizable or the teacher who ignores the fact that he is supposed to actually teach because he allows his own negative feelings about children to get in the way or the wife who cheats on her husband because he did not buy her a big enough diamond for her birthday. The wheels on the bus may go ’round and ’round, but that bus might run you over if the driver gets fired.
    There are so many levels to anger and so many ways to use it in noble ways. But rage carries the scars of centuries filled with unchecked degradation. Anger is a powerful weapon in the fight for