Topics:<\/b> Addiction; Confession; Death; Entertainment; Guilt; Hypocrisy; Media; Murder; Parenting; Play; Stumbling Blocks; Violence<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Exodus 20:13; Ezekiel 8:17; 1 Timothy 3:2\u20133; 2 Timothy 3:1\u20135; 2 Peter 2:19<\/p>\n
I have used swords and shotguns, handguns and grenades. I have shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned. I have crushed skulls with golf clubs and hammers and baseball bats. I have slaughtered men and women, drug dealers and crime bosses, soldiers and secret agents, mad scientists and aliens, zombies and the pizza guy. I have killed hundreds, even thousands\u2014so many that I lost count long ago. I have taken up machine guns, plasma rifles, and chain saws. I have learned to aim for the head.<\/p>\n
I have killed with Xbox and GameCube, PlayStation, and PC. I have killed with joystick, mouse, and keyboard. I have killed for hours at a time on screens big and small, on laptops and high-resolution monitors. I have killed in my basement, in my living room, at the local arcade, at a neighbor\u2019s house, with a coworker\u2019s teenage son. I have killed late into the night, until 3:00 a.m., because my adrenaline was surging, because my kids were safely in bed, because I was simply on a roll. Because I was winning and they were dying.\u2026<\/p>\n
Every weeknight I play, most nights later than the one before. And every night I slink up the stairs and ease my weary frame into bed, trying not to disturb my wife, who went to sleep hours ago. My body is spent, yet I cannot sleep. The bedroom is silent, yet I can still hear those ominous refrains. I close my eyes, yet I can still picture the endless corridors, each one leading to another door or outcropping, another blind corner, another enemy, another target.\u2026<\/p>\n
Come Saturday morning I\u2019m at the computer again. That\u2019s when I hear it: the muted thud of feet on the stairs. And there, standing to my right, eyes fixed on the screen, is my little boy. I tell him to go back upstairs, but he doesn\u2019t budge. In his mind there is a cartoon on the computer, the likes of which he\u2019s never seen before. He somehow knows this is forbidden fruit that he must possess or at least observe. I call for my wife, asking her to please come get her son.<\/p>\n
Later on, this boy who has never operated a joystick in his life asks me a question I never saw coming: \u201cDaddy, can I watch you play the bad game?\u201d<\/p>\n
Forgive me, Father, for I have killed.<\/p>\n
\u2014Jeff Hooten, \u201cPoint. Click. Kill,\u201d Citizen<\/i> (February 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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