By David Hegg

If America were a pot of water, we would say we’re steaming, if not already beginning to boil. Anger is everywhere, and – at times – it may be justified. Yet, if we’re brutally honest and playing with open eyes and an open, unbiased mind, we’ll have to agree that anger and outrage have become an epidemic in our day. Where America used to be the “land of the free,” meaning we were free from tyranny, we have now become an army of outrage who define “freedom” as the right to be offended, angry, insulted, caustic, mean-spirited, and downright ugly in our attacks on others. It’s not pretty, and it sure isn’t profitable.

Unless you’ve stopped using our various broadcast media options, you’ve been as stunned as I have watching grown men and women in positions of elected authority screaming their heads off, denigrating others, and even calling their minions to “fight in the streets!”

At the risk of offending some, let’s look at a verse from the writings of the Apostle James. Whether you like the Bible or not, you will find great wisdom in what he taught. His advice for his readers was simple: Be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,........

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