Anger As Idolatry

I find this passage particularly helpful on a day to day basis. A problem arises, however, as to whether this idea robs us of NECESSARY anger regarding injustice...

"That there is no one to be angry with, and no one who grows angry, is akin to the Hasidic teaching that anger is a form of idolatry. When I am angry, it's as if I'm saying 'God is this way, but I reject It...' First there is the idolatry of creating a God out of preference: God has manifested as a traffic jam or an inconsiderate person, but I have a better idea about how God should look, and I'll worship that instead. Whereas the true God is YHVH: That which Is. And second, there is the idolatry of separation: God is this way, but I reject it, or feel angry about it. I separate from God."

Jay Michaelson Everything Is God p. 162

Perhaps an answer to the conflict I raised above is that righteous anger is not idolatrous. Here's how? When I get angry about a traffic jam, I'm mistaking a "constricted mind" or a "from our perspective" mind for an "expanded mind" or "from God's view" perspective. In other words, I'm praying to my own subjectivity. However, when I witness an injustice and seek to address it, or am angered by it, I am simply seeing the action from "God's Perspective." When actions that deny or obscure the oneness of God (bullying for instance) anger us, this is as it should be.

Another possibility is that anger has no place in the discussion at all once a nondual perspective is adopted. Why anger as opposed to conscious work for change? What IS anger?

Michaelson offers another prospective answer later in the book:

"To the extent that any of us continues to identify with our illusory selves, then obviously, we must still subscribe to the other 'illusions' of the relative world, distinction-based morality included. As the non-dualist sage Nisargadatta said, 'As long as you believe yourself to be in control, believe yourself to be responsible...' in the world of the relative, suffering exists and it is our job to transform it...the world may be perfect but it is up to you to make it better."

pp.205-206