Is violent entertainment spirtually harmful?

Sorta depends on whether you're with the Christians or the Lions.

Depends on how smart/stupid and emotionally stable you are. If you're an impressionable, half-moron, then yes...violence in media can definitely have an effect on your morals. If you have at least somewhat of a clue in life, then it probably won't have much of an effect.

Can viewing or participation cause spiritual harm?

Can such activities damage one's ability to make moral decisions?

Consider that the adrenaline rush often associated with violent entertainment might provide reinforcement.

Could it lead to harmful personality traits?

Madison Avenue spends billions of dollars each year on the premise that what you see and hear does affect the way you live and the decisions you make. Are they all wet?

Concerning violent movies and video games and the like:

Can viewing or participation cause spiritual harm?

You don't need to profess belief in a god to answer. Can such activities damage one's ability to make moral decisions?

Consider that the adrenaline rush often associated with violent entertainment might provide reinforcement. Could it lead to harmful personality traits?

What constitutes 'harmful' in your opinion within the spectrum of personality traits?

real life wrote:

Madison Avenue spends billions of dollars each year on the premise that what you see and hear does affect the way you live and the decisions you make. Are they all wet?

No they are right, but if Madison Avenue spends billions of dollars to promote an SUV and a pair of jeans, that does not automatically mean that if Madison Avenue spent billions of dollars promoting death to all Christian that people would take up arms against you, Real Life

You are trying unsuccessfully to make a slippery slope argument: The slippery slope is an argument for the likelihood of one event given another. Invoking the "slippery slope" means arguing that one action will initiate a chain of events that will lead to a (generally undesirable) event later. The argument is sometimes referred to as the thin end of the wedge or the camel's nose.

The other argument you are trying to make is the shoot the messenger argument. Madison Avenue is the messenger, not an evil doer.

Now if Madison Avenue did try and promote the death to all Christians, you would quickly find that Madison Avenue would be brought to task by a number of agents, both legal and financial.

That is of course is not to say that a government agency or private company cannot fall prey to evil myopic endeavors, and as such, Senator McCarthy and Henry Ford both clearly qualify.

In fact, I assert there has been vastly more violent outcomes from the likes of figures such as Senator McCarthy, Nixon, Stalin, Henry Ford, Hitler, Jesus and Mohammed, than from any amount of "violent movies and video games".