{"id":7699,"date":"2023-07-20T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7699"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:09","slug":"worse-than-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7699","title":{"rendered":"WORSE THAN ADDICTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author Andrew Klavan is fond of saying that anger is &#8220;the devil&#8217;s cocaine&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He&#8217;s right. Anger is addictive. It feels so good sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anger, though, is most often only a symptom of a deeper problem: self-righteousness.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Self-righteousness expresses itself in more than just anger, though. To name a few, there&#8217;s virtue signaling and feeling offended and looking down on others.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Worst of all, self-righteousness keeps you unaware of your need for Christ&#8217;s righteousness. Worse than addiction, it is flat out deadly to one&#8217;s spirit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if anger is the devil&#8217;s cocaine, self-righteousness is the devil&#8217;s fentanyl.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Andrew Klavan is fond of saying that anger is &#8220;the devil&#8217;s cocaine&#8221;.\u00a0 He&#8217;s right. Anger is addictive. It feels so good sometimes. Anger, though, is most often only a symptom of a deeper problem: self-righteousness.\u00a0 Self-righteousness expresses itself in more than just anger, though. To name a few, there&#8217;s virtue signaling and feeling offended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7700,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions\/7700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}