As often happens with me, I said it without understanding it. But when I thought about it, it goes back to my post on hate a week or two ago. Hate is the difference maker. It is what DEFINES a social order. The basic refrain “hatred of sin is the beginning of wisdom” echoes throughout the Bible, particularly the Old Testament.
But what would hate without anger look like? As I feel it, it would be a sense that THAT–say shooting children to death–is ALWAYS wrong. It is an instinctive, visceral reaction. One need not follow it with anger, but I think a sense of disgust should be present. For a moral virtue to be real, you must have a sense of sin rooted in you deeply. If you lie, you must feel disgust. If you cheat, you must feel disgust. You must hate in order to have a meaningful, meaning-creating form.