Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

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17 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube podcast clip (recorded Feb 17, 2023) where host Josh Trent asks about people who are angry at God. The guest argues that anger toward God implies hurt and a relational pull — anger signals longing and an unmet desire for connection or understanding with the divine; it coexists with longing and reflects a struggle to define or reconnect with God.

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What do you make of people that are angry at God in this current time in their life or just an anger towards a higher power in general?
Well, anger is such an interesting emotion because it implies hurt. And for there to be hurt, there's some kind of relational pull. If God was neutral, if you didn't care about an idea of God or a relationship with God or even just like the idea, the conceptualization of God, I don't think you'd feel anger. I think. I think you're just being numb. It would be blank. But this idea that you're angry means that you're in a struggle with this entity that you're trying to understand. So I think anger is right alongside longing. Right? We're angry when we have a need or desire that's unmet or that's snubbed. So the existence of anger to me signals this sort of longing for a return to spirituality or even like a specific understanding of God. What is God? Who is God? How do we interact with God?