Concerning violent movies and video games and the like:
Can viewing or participation cause spiritual harm?
Consider that the adrenaline rush often associated with violent entertainment might provide reinforcement. Could it lead to harmful personality traits?
Discuss.
Evidence? All the innumerable wars (both regular and holy) in which the father, the son and the holy ghost are invoked. The Nazi's themselves were very much Christians. The outcome of Jesus' life was in effect Christianity. Christianity is well documented as a spring board for violence and bigotry. Witness the KKK, the Christian persecution of the Jews, the Christian persecution of so-called witches.
If you are asking me if there have been violent outcomes from the likes of MLK Jr, I would fist ask what relevance that question has to the violent outcomes from the likes of figures such as Jesus. Why? becasue MLK Jr's name has not been invoked for the last 2,000 years for the purposes of bigotry and violence.
Chumly wrote:
Evidence? All the innumerable wars (both regular and holy) in which the father, the son and the holy ghost are invoked. The Nazi's themselves were very much Christians. The outcome of Jesus' life was in effect Christianity. Christianity is well documented as a spring board for violence and bigotry. Witness the KKK, the Christian persecution of the Jews, the Christian persecution of so-called witches.
If you are asking me if there have been violent outcomes from the likes of MLK Jr, I would fist ask what relevance that question has to the violent outcomes from the likes of figures such as Jesus. Why? becasue MLK Jr's name has not been invoked for the last 2,000 years for the purposes of bigotry and violence.
So if I invoke your name and miscontrue something you said as I commit a crime, then you're responsible, right?
Is that your idea of 'evidence'?
My new motto "Chumly told me to."
Use is not the same as misuse. Think about it, Chumly.
real life wrote:Chumly wrote:
Evidence? All the innumerable wars (both regular and holy) in which the father, the son and the holy ghost are invoked. The Nazi's themselves were very much Christians. The outcome of Jesus' life was in effect Christianity. Christianity is well documented as a spring board for violence and bigotry. Witness the KKK, the Christian persecution of the Jews, the Christian persecution of so-called witches.
If you are asking me if there have been violent outcomes from the likes of MLK Jr, I would fist ask what relevance that question has to the violent outcomes from the likes of figures such as Jesus. Why? becasue MLK Jr's name has not been invoked for the last 2,000 years for the purposes of bigotry and violence.
So if I invoke your name and miscontrue something you said as I commit a crime, then you're responsible, right?
Is that your idea of 'evidence'?
My new motto "Chumly told me to."
Use is not the same as misuse. Think about it, Chumly.
It's kinda sad that you had to point this out RL.
The boys took the car to one of the other cottages and knocked on a window to try and get some other boys to join them in their joy ride. One of the boys ran outside in his bare feet, stepped on a piece of broken glass, and cut his foot so bad they thought it would have to be amputated. It was shortly after this incident that staff began discovering all the grand theft auto games that had been slipped onto the campus...neologist wrote: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?
Discuss.
No. It's all a matter of interpretation. Your ability to make moral decisions comes from real interaction with real people.
Whether the level of gratuitous sex and violence has increased in our modern world is a subject for further debate.
Hey, D. Tom--
What thread was it that we butted heads in? I can't remember.
So if I invoke your name and miscontrue something you said as I commit a crime, then you're responsible, right?
Is that your idea of 'evidence'?
My new motto "Chumly told me to."
Use is not the same as misuse. Think about it, Chumly.
It's kinda sad that you had to point this out RL.
real life wrote:You have replaced certain words of mine, with words of your choosing, imputing these substitutes to be equivalent, when they are not, further you then draw erroneous conclusions based on your substituted words, and then string together certain presumptions you have garnered from my text. If you quote me exactly I will be happy to engage, otherwise the train will derail as it has done here.So if I invoke your name and miscontrue something you said as I commit a crime, then you're responsible, right?
Is that your idea of 'evidence'?
My new motto "Chumly told me to."
Use is not the same as misuse. Think about it, Chumly.
Bartikus appears to have followed suitBartikus wrote:Exact quotes, the definition of one's terms, realizable logic / evidence are the requisites prior to the presently unsubstantiated claims made by you two nice fellows in reference to myself to have merit.It's kinda sad that you had to point this out RL.
quote me exactly
So if I invoke your name and misconstrue something you said as I commit a crime, then you're responsible, right?
Is that your idea of 'evidence'?
