Why
is violence considered entertainment? The fan fiction Punisher film
“Dirty Laundry” is awesome, but also disturbingly graphically
violent. Not that I was shocked by that. I knew it would be going
in. Considering this type of entertainment and the rash of violent
shootings I'm starting to wonder what kind of people our society is
forming us into.
Let
me be clear that I am not saying there is a direct relationship
between violent forms of entertainment and actual violence. Everyone
except the seriously deranged can tell the difference between a video
game and the real world. Healthy people playing violent video games
do not walk out their door and start popping people.
My
point is that we seem to be a war mongering, brutal violence is
entertainment, let's do worse things to the bad guys than they did to
us up kind of people. Revenge is our motivation not justice or love.
I
have to try to distance myself from this culture. I'm not going to go
hermit myself and the family off in the woods, but my goal is to be
as like Christ as I can be. Jesus taught to turn the other cheek
(Matthew 5:38-40), put down your sword Peter (John 18:10-12) and Paul
said to feed your enemy (Romans 12:20). This is not modeled in our
culture. Quite the opposite actually. Remember the shooting in the
Amish school? They forgave that man for a horrible crime. Instead of
being impressed by the Christ like love they showed we think (myself
included) what the hell is wrong with them.
Maybe
we should ask that of ourselves?
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